It has in many ways been a wild ride since we started the BunkerTrust project in November of 2017. The project started out attracting a lot of attention from all the stakeholders in the bunker industry - both shipowners/operators, traders, physical suppliers, ports and governmental agencies....
"We expect that BunkerTrust will assist us, in creating the much needed transparency in the bunker industry and will provide valuable insights into how DFDS can improve our overall bunkering process."
Thomas Mørk, VP | Head of Techncial Organization |...
Editorial note.
A more transparent and efficient market should help the bunkering industry come of age. As a first step towards this direction, a few Danish shipowners recently expressed their concerns in the shipping media.
Since recently, there have been many...
We humbly give thanks to The Danish Maritime Fund for believing in the project and for supporting us in our endeavour to increase the awareness of the bunker market deficiencies and increase the transparency. This support will enable us to keep developing the tools for the shipping...
Glad to see that Mark, our student employee, is conscious about safety. Mark who is studying his Master's Degree in Physics at the Niels Bohr institute is our number crunching guru and ensuring the data quality on the BunkerTrust platform.
We are currently...
I am thoroughly looking forward to going to Hamburg on 6 February to meet one of my favorite shipowners and first supports.
This German shipowner has supported us from day one, although we haven't been able to give much value back. Now I am...
For the team at BunkerTrust, two of the key issues to take away from this year's Annual Convention was that quality issues are of an epidemic nature and need to be addressed - and improvement of the ethics in the bunker industry is in constant need of...
With the “summer of bad bunkers” very present in all
shipowners’, charterers’ and operators’ minds, most companies who have some
sort of stake in the bunker industry are vary of the future – with good reason.
Marine fuel is large part of shipping, both because of...