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Argus Media: China’s Zhoushan bunker sales up 15pc in 2020

Bonded bunker sales at Zhoushan increased by 15pc from a year earlier, thanks to rising imports of iron ore and other bulk commodities as well as increased efficiencies.

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Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus Media on Friday (8 January) published a summary of market mechanisms behind the increase in bunker sales at China’s Zhoushan bunkering port throughout 2020:

Bonded bunker sales at China’s largest bunkering port of Zhoushan totalled 4.73mn t in 2020, up by 620,000t or around 15pc from a year earlier, thanks to rising imports of iron ore and other bulk commodities as well as increased efficiencies, according to data from major bunker suppliers at the port.

December sales at Zhoushan in the eastern province of Zhejiang rose by 120,000t or 26pc from a month earlier to 583,000t. Demand was driven by a rise in sales of very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), as bunker suppliers cleared storage space for new supplies from domestic refineries. The Chinese government awarded a 5mn t VLSFO export quota for 2021 to refiners Sinopec, CNPC, CNOOC, Sinochem and Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical (ZPC).

China’s total iron ore imports rose by 6.5pc to 1.13bn t in 2020. Zhoushan is one of the three biggest iron ore arrival ports in China, together with Caofeidian and Jingtang. Bulk carriers and other vessels tend to bunker in either Singapore or Zhoushan, depending on prices, timing, availability and other factors.

The number of bunker spot trades reported to Argus at Zhoushan also rose. Spot volumes of VLSFO, high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) and marine gasoil (MGO) trades reached a combined 883,000t in 2020, equivalent to nearly 3,700t per trading day, more than 2½ times the daily average of 1,400t in 2019. Argus started using a volume-weighted average (VWA) methodology to assess the delivered-on-board bunker market in June 2019.

Zhoushan’s bunker volumes were also boosted by an increase in processing efficiency, after upgrades to its electronic platform for the outer port limit (OPL), where most international bunkering takes place.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) 2020 rules, which cap marine fuel sulphur content at 0.5pc, have also helped China expand its bunker volumes. The government awarded 10mn t of VLSFO export quotas for 2020, cutting bunker costs and reducing its dependence on imports. The availability of domestic VLSFO for the bunker sector also helped narrow the premium to the Singapore market — the differential between Zhoushan and Singapore VLSFO bunker spot prices — from an average of $26/t in 2019 to just $7/t in 2020.


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Published: 11 January, 2021

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Winding up

Singapore: Xihe Holdings subsidiaries to be wound up voluntarily, creditors to submit claims

Creditors of Da Zhong Tankers and Xin Ying Shipping are required on or before 17 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims to appointed liquidators, says notice.

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Xihe Holdings Pte Ltd subsidiaries Da Zhong Tankers Pte Ltd and Xin Ying Shipping Pte Ltd will voluntarily wind up following resolutions that were passed by written means, according to a Government Gazette notice published on Thursday (18 June).

The resolutions set out below were duly passed:

  • SPECIAL RESOLUTION – WINDING-UP

That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to section 160(1)(b) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.

  • ORDINARY RESOLUTION – APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATORS

That Paresh Tribhovan Jotangia and Ho May Kee of Grant Thornton Singapore Private Limited, 8 Marina View, #40-04/05 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960 be and are hereby appointed as joint and several liquidators to conduct the said winding-up and that their remuneration be fixed on the usual scale of their professional charges for the work involved.

  • SPECIAL RESOLUTION – POWERS OF LIQUIDATORS

That the liquidators of the Company be authorised to exercise any of their powers given by section 177, 144 (1) and (2) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 and to distribute to members, in specie, any part of the assets of the Company.

In another notice, the liquidator of the company said creditors are required on or before 17 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses with particulars of their solicitors (if any) to liquidator Paresh Tribhovan Jotangia at Grant Thornton Singapore Private Limited, 8 Marina View, #40-04/05 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960. 

The liquidator may require creditors or their solicitors to “come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice or in default thereof, they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.”

Related: Singapore: Additional Xihe Holdings subsidiaries to be placed under judicial management

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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Singapore: Liquidator of Parakou Shipping issues notice of dividend

Second and final dividend to admitted creditors of Parakou Shipping is payable by 14 July, according to Government Gazette notice.

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A notice of dividend for Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd, which is currently in voluntary liquidation, was published on the Government Gazette on Thursday (18 June). 

The following are the details of the notice:

Name of Company : Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd (In Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation)
Address of Registered Office : c/o KordaMentha, 50 Raffles Place, 25-01 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore 048623
Amount per centum : 0.55 per centum of admitted claims (in accordance with the Order of Court HC/ORC 4175/2024)
First and Final or otherwise : Second and Final Dividend to admitted creditors (in accordance with the Order of Court HC/ORC 4175/2024)
When payable : By 14 July 2026
Where payable : c/o KordaMentha Pte Ltd, 50 Raffles Place, #25-01 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore 048623

Related: Singapore: Notice of intended dividend issued for Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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Alternative Fuels

MOL inks bio-LNG bunker fuel supply deals with Titan and Axpo for car carriers in Europe

Titan, part of Amsterdam-based Molgas, will continue to supply bio-LNG fuel in Northwest Europe, while Axpo will take charge of supply in the Mediterranean region.

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MOL inks bio-LNG bunker fuel supply deals with Titan and Axpo for car carriers in Europe

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) on Thursday (18 July) said it has signed new supply agreements in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean region to expand the use of bio-LNG marine fuel on MOL-operated LNG-fuelled car carriers.

Titan, part of Amsterdam-based Molgas, will continue to supply bio-LNG fuel in Northwest Europe, while Axpo will take charge of supply in the Mediterranean region.

MOL said the agreement makes it possible for its company to supply bio-LNG fuel for automobile carriers in the Mediterranean region, specifically Port of Malaga and Barcelona in Spain, following the bio-LNG fuel supply agreement in Western Europe, which commenced in March last year.

The bio-LNG fuel to be supplied in this initiative has a lifecycle carbon intensity (carbon dioxide emissions per unit of energy consumption) of -15 g-CO2/MJ or less, from production through consumption. Furthermore, this bio-LNG fuel has obtained International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC-EU). 

“Through this supply agreement, MOL has established a framework that ensures a continuous and stable supply of bio-LNG fuel not only in Northern Europe but also in the Mediterranean,” the company said.

As part of the group’s efforts to adopt alternative fuels and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is utilising LNG-fuelled vessels as a bridge solution to facilitate the transition to carbon-neutral fuels such as bio-LNG and synthetic LNG (e-methane).

In 2025, MOL signed a bio LNG fuel supply agreement in Northwest Europe with Titan, part of the Molgas, and MOL has continued this bio LNG fuel supply agreement with the same company in 2026 as well.

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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