FOBAS tested several samples that were all high sulphur residual bunker fuels and TSP results ranged from 0.16% m/m to 0.44% m/m.
Captain Rahul Choudhuri took the audience through a contaminated VLSFO case study experienced by a prominent shipowner in New York during February 2025.
VPS witnessed a high number of elevated cat-fine levels in VLSFO across East Coast USA, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Algeciras and Port Louis, between 11 to 31...
Recently FOBAS tested several residual fuel samples from Singapore, that exceeded the 60 mg/kg limit, for Aluminium + Silicon (catfines) as stipulated in the ISO 8217:2010/12/17...
Maritec-Naias tested forty samples representing VLSFO bunker fuel deliveries from various suppliers at Singapore ports, which indicated Al+Si concentrations ranging from 51 mg/Kg up to 120...
These fuels were bunkered in the second half of April from ports in the ARA region with tested ash ranging from 0.102 to 0.127%m/m; high calcium...
FOBAS has tested fuel samples from vessels, which bunkered in Istanbul, that have reported problems with fuel injection equipment seemingly caused by a substance sticking and...
FOBAS has tested several samples from Civitavecchia with TSP results exceeding the ISO8217 specification limit of 0.10% m/m; samples were all high sulphur residual fuels.
FOBAS has tested several samples from ARA region with density results exceeding the ISO8217 specification limit of 991.0 kg/m3for an RMG380 grade fuel.
FOBAS has tested several VLSFO bunker fuel samples from UK ports, Belfast and Fishguard with Total Sediment Potential (TSP) results exceeding the ISO8217 specification limit of...
