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From May of this year the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will start extra checks on fuel samples.

GCMS is an advanced and more expensive testing technique that has been used more widely in the bunker industry since the global contamination problems of 2018.

Panama Bunker Sales Lost 14.2% at Start of 2021 by Ship & Bunker News Team Thursday February 18, 2021 Panama's bunker sales started 2021 on a weak note, losing 14.2% from the highs of the IMO 2020 transition a year ago. The country saw total bunker sales of 409,767 mt last month, according to the latest data from the Panama Maritime Authority, down from 477,339 mt in the same month a year earlier. The decline is partly explained by the artificially high levels in January 2020, when shipping companies were stockpiling the new VLSFO blends on concerns about availability problems. Panama...

"I see price in terms of both direction of movement and overall level for both marine fuel and crude oil as important in patterns of quality claims in bunkers."

Bunker Margins, Not Outright Prices, Are Key to Fuel Quality Problems: NSI by Ship & Bunker News Team Wednesday February 17, 2021 Brokerage NSI has responded to KPI OceanConnect's warning of higher oil prices leading to bunker quality problems this year, saying low margins are more likely to be the culprit. Søren Høll said some of the VLSFO quality problems anticipated before IMO 2020 might come to pass this year with oil prices recovering from their crash last March. "There have been fewer quality issues than many analysts predicted, but this may have been partly masked by the pandemic...