The Global Marine Fuels Report provides price assessments for 0.5% VLSFO and high-sulfur bulk and bunkering fuels in key ports worldwide. It features the OPIS BTU Indicator, which helps buyers plan cost-effective fuel purchases by calculating the energy content in the new 0.5% VLSFO compared with legacy high-sulfur marine fuels. The report also includes exclusive OPIS benchmarked ULSD rack prices for key North American markets, plus ULSD spot prices for Gulf Coast, New York Barge, Los Angeles, and the Pacific Northwest. Additionally, it offers up-to-date daily fixtures of fuel oil, vacuum gasoil, and other marine fuel blending components cargoes. The report now includes a Decarbonization supplement, offering transparent price assessments for European carbon compliance costs and methanol bunker prices, including OPIS Europe Marine Cap-at-the-Port (CAP) prices and OPIS Grey Methanol Bunker prices.

Key Features & Benefits

• This report is a “one-stop shop” for key marine bunker fuel prices in the most important regions, presented with handy tables, charts and graphs for at-a-glance reading. Get the bunker fuel pricing information you need to take quick action.
• In Asia, prices for 0.5% VLSFO, 380 CST HSFO, and MGO are reported for the key ports of Singapore; Fujairah; Chiba, Japan; Busan, South Korea; Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Zhoushan, China.
• In Europe, you’ll find 0.5% VLSFO, HSFO, and DMA prices out of these essential ports: Rotterdam; Antwerp; Hamburg; Istanbul; Gibraltar and Piraeus.
• In the Americas, prices for all the above products plus LT cycle oil and LNG in Houston; New York; New Orleans; Savannah; Los Angeles; Seattle; Panama; Philadelphia; Norfolk; Vancouver, Canada; Manzanillo, Mexico; Veracruz, Mexico and Valparaiso, Mexico.
• Only found in the OPIS report! OPIS benchmarked ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) rack prices in key North American markets, plus ULSD spot prices for Gulf Coast, New York Barge, Los Angeles, and the Pacific Northwest.
• BTU Indicator: Plan the most cost-effective fuel purchase by calculating the energy content in the new 0.5% VLSFO compared to your previous bunker fuel.
• Evaluate compliance options, source fuel and make cost-effective operating decisions. This report is beneficial for ship owners and operators, refiners, bunker fuel buyers, procurement mangers, traders, brokers, and professionals at integrated fuel companies and marine departments.
• Budget friendly. Pare down the data you receive to the most important prices and ports needed to monitor the transitioning marine fuel market.
• Trust OPIS price assessments because they are based on transactional data that occurs over the course of the entire trading day. Indicative prices for 0.5% VLSFO are based on a formula that relies on price assessments calculated on a full day’s trading. And when the new fuel spec starts trading, OPIS will report on its true market value as we do with all other fuel prices we report.
• Easily get answers to your questions because every report issue includes contact information for our market editors. Help is only an email or phone call away.
• Diesel rack pricing is also available if you need to monitor wholesale