Climate Change
Adapting to new industry challenges
Fuel Quality: ARA Market
Lesley Bankes-Hughes takes a look at ARA fuel quality trends across the year so far.
Market Focus: Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic and new developments in LNG have made for an interesting Canadian bunker market in 2020. Ian Taylor reports.
IMO 2020: Bunker Claims
IMO 2020 has again highlighted the ‘grey areas’ in the sulphur parameters of MARPOL and commercial bunker samples and also in fuel sampling locations. Alessio Sbraga and Jean Koh of HFW look at these issues from a bunker claims perspective.
Legal Issues: Future Contracts
Steve Simms of Simms Showers considers how bunker sales terms should be revised or written anew in the years ahead in light of the energy transition.
Price Risk Management
Black swan events, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, can derail the most prudent of hedging strategies but, as Kevin O’Reilly of Global Risk Management explains, there are hedging options available to reduce exposure to such ‘one-off’ market volatility.
Oil and Bunker Market Outlook
BIMCO’s Peter Sand looks at how oil and bunker demand have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dry Bulk Market Outlook
Drewry’s Rahul Sharan assesses how the dry bulk market is faring amid the continuing disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis.
Fuel Measurement
Naveen Hegde of Emerson explains that its Micro Motion mass flow meter design ensures that bunker tanker and vessel operators do not have to recalibrate and reverify their onboard fuel measurement systems when switching between high and low viscosity marine fuels.
Fuel Cells
Clean-tech innovator and professional ocean racer Phil Sharp tells Ian Taylor how OceansLab is using the world of competitive sailing as a proving ground for new technologies.
Electrofuels
Nick Ash of Ricardo argues that a shift to zero-carbon shipping fuels will bring significant benefits to ports and their local economies.
Decarbonisation
- Marie Cabbia Hubatova of Environmental Defense Fund Europe considers what shipping can learn from aviation in the drive towards using alternative fuels.
- Carbon trading is the lowest cost option to reduce vessels’ carbon emissions, but Robin Meech finds the sums required will massively outstrip shipping’s spend on IMO 2020.
Industry Overview
Industry expert Nigel Draffin takes the ‘long view’ of bunkering.
Bunker Quality Claims
The introduction of VLSFOs into the marine fuel pool has again brought the issue of fuel quality management systems to the fore, and Chris Fisher finds there is room for improvement.
Fuel Quality
Bunker alerts issued by fuel testing companies have reflected the changes in fuel composition driven by the requirements of environmental legislation – but, as Steve Bee of VPS explains, the type of quality issues seen in bunker fuel has also remained remarkably constant.
