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About 1.5% of the VLSFO samples analysed by Verifuel in the third quarter of 2023 were found to be off-specification, the company tells Ship & Bunker.

The total was down by 7.2% from August's level, by 5.9% from September 2022 and the lowest monthly total since June.

Steve Bee of testing and decarbonisation advisory firm VPS discusses his company's experience with methanol bunkers, including working with Maersk's first methanol-fuelled boxship.

The authorities plan to make the use of MFMs mandatory for all bunker barges over 300 GT in size from the start of January 2026, three sources familiar with the situation tell Ship & Bunker.

The authorities plan to make the use of MFMs mandatory for all bunker barges over 300 GT in size from the start of January 2026, three sources familiar with the situation tell Ship & Bunker.

It can be argued that these fuels represented by the tested samples may not meet the general requirements outlined in clause 5 of ISO8217, says CTI-Maritec.

From October 2 the company will guarantee the 2017 rather than 2010 specifications for its VLSFO and low-viscosity VLSFO deliveries.

Tow Foong Lim has joined Peninsula as senior quality executive in Singapore as of this month.

Hambantota saw more than 500,000 mt of bunker sales in the first eight months of the year, five times the volume seen in the same period a year earlier.

Wolf Rehder, area manager for Germany at testing firm VPS, discusses the temperature requirements for keeping VLSFO in good condition.