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The Port of Long Beach has reported that – following its strongest April on record and 11 consecutive months of cargo increases – it is now preparing for a double-digit decline for shipments in May ‘due to tariffs – and retaliatory tariffs – that were paused earlier this month’.

High sulphur fuel oil (HSFO), very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and low sulphur marine gasoil (LSMGO) prices increased at Houston over the last seven days, according to Bunkerspot Price Index (BPi) data.

As the Jamaica bunker market prepares for the debut of TFG Marine and Scott Petroleum’s new supply partnership next month, sources at Petrojam have informed Bunkerspot that the national oil company’s own direct bunker barge service is now scheduled to make its first delivery this weekend (19-20 May).

TFG Marine has announced it is launching marine fuel supply operations in Jamaica with local partners Scott Petroleum.

The 459,126 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel that were sold in Panama last month marked a 21.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase on the 377,180 mt sold in April 2024.

Ecuador’s national oil company Petroecuador has reported that operations at its Esmeraldas refinery – which was damaged in an earthquake late last month – are being resumed ‘progressively’.

The second vessel in Crowley’s Avance Class fleet of LNG-powered containerships, Copán, has begun its inaugural commercial operations from the Port of Jacksonville, Florida (JAXPORT).

DP World has signed a landmark $760 million Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of the Dominican Republic to expand the Port of Caucedo and its free trade zone.

SunGas Renewables Inc. has announced the start of front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Beaver Lake Renewable Energy green methanol project it is developing with C2X in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

Seaspan Energy has announced it has completed the first LNG bunkering of a cruise ship in the Canadian port of Vancouver.