Global Marine Fuels Report: Bulk & Bunker Fuel Pricing & Shipping Industry Outlook

Global Shipping Market Outlook and Bunker Fuel Pricing

Navigate the complexities of global marine fuel pricing with clarity and confidence. The OPIS Global Marine Fuels Report delivers daily assessments for key bunker hubs, offering transparency into market movements and critical pricing trends across the world’s most active ports. Whether you’re a fuel buyer, trader, shipowner, or analyst, this report is your go-to resource for competitive insight and risk management in the fast-moving bunker market.

Port Coverage Includes:

Americas: Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Balboa
EMEA: Rotterdam, Gibraltar, Istanbul, Fujairah
Asia-Pacific: Singapore, Zhoushan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Busan
And more major bunkering hubs worldwide.

The Global Marine Fuels Report also includes the most up to date daily fixtures of fuel oil, vacuum gasoil, and other marine fuel blending components cargoes.

Easily track marine cargo and bunker fuel prices for Asia, Europe and the Americas with this concise report featuring at-a-glance tables and charts. Download a sample report and see for yourself.

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Learn more about OPIS Global Marine Fuels Report Pricing:

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Key Features

In Asia, prices for 0.5% VLSFO, 380 CST HSFO, and MGO are reported for the key ports of Singapore; Fujairah; Chiba, Japan; Busan, South Korea; Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Zhoushan, China.
In Europe, you’ll find 0.5% VLSFO, HSFO, and DMA prices out of these essential ports: Rotterdam; Antwerp; Hamburg; Istanbul; Gibraltar and Piraeus.
In the Americas, prices for all the above products plus LT cycle oil and LNG in Houston; New York; New Orleans; Savannah; Los Angeles; Seattle; Panama; Philadelphia; Norfolk; Vancouver, Canada; Manzanillo, Mexico; Veracruz, Mexico and Valparaiso, Mexico.
BTU Indicator: Plan the most cost-effective fuel purchase by calculating the energy content in the new 0.5% VLSFO compared to your previous bunker fuel.
Diesel rack pricing is also available if you need to monitor wholesale prices

Benefits

This report is a “one-stop shop” for key marine bunker fuel prices in the most important regions, presented with handy tables, charts and graphs for at-a-glance reading.
Only found in the OPIS report! OPIS benchmarked ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) rack prices in key North American markets, plus ULSD spot prices for Gulf Coast, New York Barge, Los Angeles, and the Pacific Northwest.
Evaluate compliance options, source fuel and make cost-effective operating decisions.
Budget-friendly. Pare down the data you receive to the most important prices and ports needed to monitor the transitioning marine fuel market.
Easily get answers to your questions because every report issue includes contact information for our market editors. Help is only an email or phone call away.

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New Decarbonization supplement

OPIS has expanded its daily Global Marine Fuels Report to offer transparent price assessments for European carbon compliance costs as well as methanol bunker prices. Published in a new Decarbonization supplement, these prices include:

OPIS Europe Marine Cap-at-the-Port (CAP) prices: Designed to make the costs of complying with EU carbon regulations transparent, these assessments represent the price of paying for the emissions from 1 metric ton of various marine fuels that are obligated under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). These assessments are based on the price of EU ETS allowances (EUAs) and carbon emissions factors for marine fuel combustion.

Products: Daily (€/mt of fuel) and ($/mt of fuel) Cap-at-the-Port prices are published for:

HFO Jurisdiction EU CAP
HFO Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
LFO Jurisdiction EU CAP
LFO Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
LNG Jurisdiction EU CAP
LNG Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
LPG Butane Jurisdiction EU CAP
LPG Butane Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
LPG Propane Jurisdiction EU CAP
LPG Propane Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
Methanol Jurisdiction EU CAP
Methanol Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP
MGO Jurisdiction EU CAP
MGO Non-Jurisdiction EU CAP

OPIS Grey Methanol Bunker prices: These weekly assessments are based on grey methanol price assessments from Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, plus storage and logistics costs needed to make methanol available as a marine fuel. Weekly delivered $/mt prices are available for:

Houston Grey Methanol: Calculated based on the weekly FOB US Gulf Methanol Spot assessment in the OPIS Global Methanol – Weekly Market Report as well as storage and logistics costs.
Houston Grey Methanol VLSFO Equivalent: Price represents a calculated Houston VLSFO bunker fuel replacement cost.
Rotterdam Grey Methanol: Calculated based on the weekly FOB NW Europe Methanol Spot T2 assessment in the OPIS Global Methanol – Weekly Market Report as well as storage and logistics costs.
Rotterdam Grey Methanol VLSFO Equivalent: Price represents a calculated Rotterdam VLSFO bunker fuel replacement cost.
Singapore Grey Methanol: Calculated based on the weekly CFR SE Asia Methanol Spot assessment in the OPIS Global Methanol – Weekly Market Report as well as storage and logistics costs.
Singapore Grey Methanol VLSFO Equivalent: Price represents a calculated Singapore VLSFO bunker fuel replacement cost.

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