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If January's bunker sales were to be replicated over the rest of 2024, this year's total for Singapore would reach 58.74 million mt.

Wolf Rehder, area manager for Germany at VPS, discusses how fuel quality issues can affect emergency equipment.

About 1.5% of the VLSFO samples analysed by Verifuel in the fourth quarter of 2023 were found to be off-specification.

In aftermath of February 2022 contamination incident and on recommendations of industry expert group.

In 2023, the maritime industry experienced a notable increase in fuel pump problems, according to Viswa Lab data.

2023 saw the continuing evolution and the widening of available maritime fuel types and grades.

Q4's total was down by 11.3% from the previous quarter, by 27.9% from Q4 2022 and the lowest quarterly figure since Q3 2019.

Testing firm Maritec Pte Ltd has warned of samples showing low-flashpoint bunker fuels being offered for sale in Indonesia.

Panama's November total was down by 7.5% from a year earlier, by 12% from October's level and the lowest monthly total since September 2022.

The most recent sample with a confirmed problem that the firm has seen was bunkered in mid-October.