{"id":53248,"date":"2026-05-13T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?p=53248"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:52:12","slug":"biofuel-bunker-snapshot-pomeme-barge-price-drop-limits-rotterdam-b30-vlsfo-price-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/biofuel-bunker-snapshot-pomeme-barge-price-drop-limits-rotterdam-b30-vlsfo-price-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel Bunker Snapshot: POMEME barge price drop limits Rotterdam B30-VLSFO price gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biofuel Bunker Snapshot: POMEME barge price drop limits Rotterdam B30-VLSFO price gain<\/p>\n<p>Rotterdam\u2019s B30-VLSFO (POMEME) price has increased by $35\/mt in the last week. The port\u2019s conventional VLSFO price rise has been over twice as steep, at $74\/mt.<\/p>\n<p>Prima Markets has assessed a $13\/mt drop in its ARA POMEME barge price over the last week, a sign that biofuel feedstock prices have come down.<\/p>\n<p>Rotterdam\u2019s conventional LSMGO price has dipped $69\/mt lower, outpacing a $15\/mt drop for B30-LSMGO.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the B30-LSMGO blend\u2019s price premium over conventional LSMGO has increased from $68\/mt to $122\/mt during the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Gibraltar\u2019s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) price has increased by $57\/mt, slightly greater than the $42\/mt increase in the port\u2019s conventional VLSFO grade.<\/p>\n<p>Biofuel bunker delivieres in both the ARA hub and the Gibraltar Strait require around 7-10 days of lead time, a trader said.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) price has eked out a small gain during the last week, while its conventional VLSFO price has increased by $49\/mt.<\/p>\n<p>Prima Markets\u2019 China UCOME cargo price has been unchanged over this period. Chinese UCOME is a key blendstock for Singapore\u2019s B30-VLSFO and a flat price could have contributed to keep a lid on B30-VLSFO bunker price increases.<\/p>\n<p>In other news from this week, Chinese bunker supplier Chimbusco Pan Nation (CPN)supplied around 2,500 mt of B100 in the Port of Hong Kong on 2 May, which was the largest B100 stem bunkered in the country.<\/p>\n<p>French food products company Bel will buy carbon credits from CMA CGM to claim reductions in the Scope 3 emissions generated across its supply chain. The emission reductions will come from CMA CGM\u2019s use of UCOME-based biofuel blends on its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Nippon Biofuel\u2019s Makoto Goda spoke to ENGINE about the company\u2019s plans to produce marine biofuel from jatropha grown in African farms.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.engine.online\/news<\/p>\n<p>hellenicshippingnews&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mh-source-attribution\">\n  <span>Source:<\/span><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellenicshippingnews.com\/biofuel-bunker-snapshot-pomeme-barge-price-drop-limits-rotterdam-b30-vlsfo-price-gain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hellenicshipping<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofuel Bunker Snapshot: POMEME barge price drop limits Rotterdam B30-VLSFO price gain<br \/>\nin<br \/>\nInternational Shipping News<br \/>\n12\/05\/2026<br \/>\nRotterdam and Europe<br \/>\nRotterdam\u2019s B30-VLSFO (POMEME) price has increased by $35\/mt in the last week. The port\u2019s conventional VLSFO price rise has been over twice as steep, at $74\/mt.<br \/>\nPrima Markets has assessed a $13\/mt drop in its ARA POMEME barge price over the last week, a sign that biofuel feedstock prices have come down.<br \/>\nRotterdam\u2019s conventional LSMGO price has dipped $69\/mt lower, outpacing a $15\/mt drop for B30-LSMGO.<br \/>\nConsequently, the B30-LSMGO blend\u2019s price premium over conventional LSMGO has increased from $68\/mt to $122\/mt during the last week.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Gibraltar\u2019s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) price has increased by $57\/mt, slightly greater than the $42\/mt increase in the port\u2019s conventional VLSFO grade.<br \/>\nBiofuel bunker delivieres in both the ARA hub and the Gibraltar Strait require around 7-10 days of lead time, a trader said.<br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nSingapore\u2019s B30-VLSFO <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","c2c-post-author-ip":"2.217.156.155","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-shipping-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53250,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions\/53250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}