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. It includes the most up to date daily fixtures of fuel oil, vacuum gasoil, and other marine fuel blending components cargoes.

Port Coverage:

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.

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Learn more about OPIS Global Marine Fuels Report Pricing:

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.

View the Global Marine Fuels Report product fact sheet to learn more about the report.
Download an infographic that shows the money-saving benefits of access to VLSFO pricing.

What do you get?

The Report includes:

Daily Bunker Price Assessments Across Global Hubs
Monitor benchmark prices for VLSFO, HSFO, and MGO at more than 20 key ports, including Singapore, Rotterdam, Fujairah, Houston, New York, Gibraltar, and Zhoushan. Prices are assessed with precision based on reported bids, offers, and trades, delivering a credible view of real-time market value.
Insightful Market Commentary
Each issue includes expert analysis from OPIS editors on pricing trends, supply-demand shifts, geopolitical influences, and regulatory developments—giving you context beyond the numbers.
Forward Curves & Historical Pricing
Track market evolution and plan ahead with access to forward price curves and historical data. Whether you’re budgeting, forecasting, or benchmarking contract performance, the report supports long-term decision-making.
Alternative Fuels and Biofuel Coverage
Stay ahead of the transition to low- and zero-emission fuels with timely insight into LNG bunkering, biofuel blends, and other alternative marine fuel trends—helping you align with IMO 2020, IMO 2030, and broader ESG goals.
Robust, Transparent Methodology
Our price discovery process is built on market fundamentals and real-world trading activity. You can trust the consistency and accuracy of OPIS data when managing risk, negotiating contracts, or reporting fuel costs.
Marine Alerts are included at all service levels for Global Marine Fuels report subscribers

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.

Who Uses This Report?

This report is beneficial for ship owners and operators, refiners, bunker fuel buyers, procurement managers, traders, brokers, and professionals at integrated fuel companies and marine departments.

Shipowners & Operators
Gain visibility into global fuel costs and optimize your purchasing decisions across ports.
Bunker Fuel Suppliers & Traders
Assess competitive market positions and identify arbitrage opportunities with confidence.
Charterers & Logistics Teams
Use trusted benchmarks to improve voyage planning, procurement timing, and contract negotiations.
Analysts, Risk Managers & Consultants
Track price trends and exposures across your fuel portfolio with access to credible, up-to-date market data.
Sustainability & Regulatory Teams
Leverage emissions-related fuel data and insights to support compliance reporting and carbon intensity modeling.

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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