Formed in 1992, IBIA has a worldwide membership across the bunker industry value chain, including ship owners, bunker suppliers, traders, brokers, testing and surveyor companies, credit reporting companies, lawyers, port authorities & journalists. It provides an international forum to address ...more…
IBIA Privacy Policy (GDPR)
IBIA is improving its Privacy Policy reflecting the recent changes in the EU regarding the protection, transparency, collection and processing of your data. We respect your privacy and our priority is to protect your data, therefore in order to continue holding and using your personal data, we require your specific… …more…
Reminder to ensure your BDNs comply with MARPOL Annex VI
IBIA would like to remind the bunker supply community about the importance of ensuring the bunker delivery note, and in particular the supplier’s declaration, comply with MARPOL Annex VI, as we have seen recent examples of BDNs that fail to comply. Appendix V of MARPOL Annex VI sets requirements for… …more…
New Annex VI signatories boosts global reach of 0.50% sulphur limit
MARPOL Annex VI, the IMO’s regulatory instrument for controlling emissions to air from ships, now has 98 contracting States, representing approximately 96.76% of the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant shipping according to tonnage calculations provided to IMO as of 15 July 2020. It follows several recent accessions to the… …more…
COVID-19 impacts on markets and IMO 2020 compliance
IBIA recently took part in a webinar entitled “Why Covid-19 Could Be a Game Changer for Scrubber Suppliers” organised by Asia Pacific Maritime (APM), where we gave a presentation focusing on the pandemic’s impact on the bunker market, including scrubber installations, and compliance with the 0.50% sulphur limit. The other speakers… …more…
Replay: Future Fuels and Bunkering in 2020
If you didn’t catch IBIA’s participation in the Lloyd’s List Future Fuels Webinar or the joint S&P Global Platts & IBIA webinar entitled Bunkering in 2020: Sulphur regulations, oil wars and COVID-19, both are available to view online. Chaired by Richard Meade, Managing Editor, Lloyd’s List, the Future Fuels webinar featured… …more…
Build knowledge with Online Bunker Training courses
We are proud to present the first ever online IBIA Bunker Training course, available to all who want to educate themselves or their staff at a time and place that is convenient for them. The course, covering a range of topics, is delivered by renowned bunker industry expert Nigel Draffin… …more…
IBIA questions new claims about VLSFO and black carbon emissions
Fuel oil blends produced to meet the IMO 2020 sulphur limit, referred to as very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), have had a lot of bad press. Most of it has been based on alarmist predictions about the quality and other characteristics of these fuels, which have later proven to… …more…
Peter William Beekhuis
Peter is currently head of Maersk’s East of Suez Oil Trading (MOT) team, responsible for the group’s physical bunker supply chain in Singapore and Malaysia as well as their fuel requirements across the remaining ports in the region. He is also the Maersk representative on the Singapore Shipping Association Marine… …more…
Counterparty risk and financial concerns in the COVID-19 age
To what extent has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the financial health of bunker suppliers and buyers and, consequently, counterparty risk and credit lines? We discussed these questions with IBIA members in late April and there is no doubt that these concerns weigh heavily on their minds. Unexpected bunker price volatility… …more…
Mixed views on COVID-19 impact on bunker demand
Is bunker demand falling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic? The answer to that question depends, to some extent, on who you ask and will vary between regions, ports, shipping sectors and bunker suppliers. Some ports and supply companies have recorded an uptick in bunker demand during the first… …more…
COVID-19: The human element
Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has caused distressing problems for seafarers as crew changes have become fraught with difficulty and huge delays, essentially trapping crew onboard beyond the end of their contracted periods. The same has been happening to crew on bunker barges in some ports. This upsetting… …more…
