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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.

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has announced the appointment of Jon Hughes, Managing Director of Dan-Bunkering Africa, as the new Chair of the IBIA Africa Regional Board.

In its newly published report for Q1 2025, the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said it had recorded 27 vessel incidents in the Singapore Straits, compared to seven in the first quarter of 2024, with most of these events described as ‘low-level opportunistic crimes.’

Netherlands-based Ballast Nedam Infra and Hakkers Waterbouw are joining forces for the construction of a large sea jetty as part of a new LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel, Germany, which will be able to accommodate LNG bunker vessels.

Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe) and Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) have launched the European Civil Society Observatory on Methane, which they describe as a platform to ‘push for the reduction of methane pollution from fossil fuels’.

The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation, state-owned electricity utility PLN, ferry operator ASDP and the Indonesian subsidiary of hydrogen developer HDF Energy have signed an agreement for a joint study to decarbonise the country’s maritime sector using locally produced green hydrogen.

Global ocean container shipping emitted ‘all-time high carbon emissions’ in 2024, driven largely by the impact of conflict in the Red Sea, according to data released by Xeneta and Marine Benchmark this week.

Dutch biofuel supplier FincoEnergies has entered the FuelEU Maritime compliance market with a new pooling offering by which it will offer a discount to customers bunkering its biofuels and make the ‘compliance surpluses’ generated by those ships available to under-compliant vessels.

Green Marine – the global initiatives aiming to support maritime decarbonisation – has unveiled its 2025 programme, which now includes 15 performance indicators.

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) for the design of its liquid-hydrogen-powered service operation vessel (SOV).