Bunkerspot February / March 2023
Smugglers ahoy!
Thomas Timlen of Risk Intelligence finds that fuel smuggling remains a persistent problem in Southeast Asia
Feb 2023 . 6 min read see card
Small print is king
Hamed Fathi considers how we deal with modern day risks in the bunker industry
Feb 2023 . 10 min read see card
Trading the future
What can a 30-year-old report on derivatives teach the bunker industry about managing risks? Quite a lot, suggests energy market risk professional,...
Feb 2023 . 7 min read see card
Asking the right questions
Michalis Manassakis of KPI OceanConnect discusses the marine fuels market’s changing dynamics and the importance of building trust and transparency...
Feb 2023 . 4 min read see card
Cover story
Graham Watts of Bunker Insure surveys the marine credit insurance market and finds that good coverage is still available for bunker companies, but ...
Feb 2023 . 6 min read see card
Renewals strategy
Hannes von Knorring of DNV tells Ian Taylor about a new feasibility study focused on green-fuelled newbuilds for the Baltic and North Sea fleets
Feb 2023 . 7 min read see card
Scaling up
Chris Chatterton of The Methanol Institute argues that methanol, as the most efficient carrier of hydrogen, is the preferred fuel source for a solu...
Feb 2023 . 7 min read see card
Step change
Taking a step-by-step approach to adopting new fuels is the best way to help de-risk the decarbonisation transition, says Wärtsilä’s Mikael Wideskog
Feb 2023 . 10 min read see card
Team Player
The Maersk McKinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping is driving R&D in shipping’s energy transition. Here, Matt Dunlop of V.Group – one of th...
Feb 2023 . 14 min read see card
Troubleshooting
Naeem Javaid and Murray Kirkwood of FOBAS consider the causes and location of major off-spec bunker fuel incidents in 2022
Feb 2023 . 10 min read see card
Annual check-up
2022 was yet another ‘interesting’ year for fuel quality, with notable contamination issues in the Singapore and ARA bunker markets, the impact of ...
Feb 2023 . 11 min read see card
Crunch time?
Erik Hoffmann and Nithin Chandran of ENGINE ask if there will be a European bunker supply crunch after Russian imports dry up?
Feb 2023 . 9 min read see card








