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MABUX ARA LNG Bunker Index
Port LNG$/mton MGO LS$/mton Date
ARA
1 356.00
+67.00
1 255.00
+40.00
Aug 31
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Port	LNG$/mton	MGO LS$/mton	Date
ARA	1 356.00	+67.00	1 255.00	+40.00	Aug 31

MABUX Global Bunker Index

380HSFO$/mton		VLS FO$/mton		MGO LS$/mton		Date
622.00	+3.36	775.64	+7.40	1 349.80	+16.82	Aug 31

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All Indexes in $/mton	380HSFO			VLS FO			MGO LS			Date
All Indexes in $/mton	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	Date
Rotterdam	545	621	-76	665	695	-30	1 255	1 432	-177	Aug 31
Singapore	631	644	-13	783	785	-2	1 175	1 425	-250	Aug 31
Fujairah	620	594	+26	795	728	+67	1 389	1 488	-99	Aug 31
Houston	473	621	-148	678	721	-43	1 225	1 349	-124	Aug 31

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Latest News
- 2026-09-01
  Europe Gas Prices Jump 5% to Highest Level Since 2023
  European benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 5% in early morning trade on Monday as the re-escalation of hostilities between the United States and Iran intensified concerns about LNG supply from the Middle East. The benchmark price at the Dutch... Read more European benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 5% in early morning trade on Monday as the re-escalation of hostilities between the United States and Iran intensified concerns about LNG supply from the Middle East.
  
  The benchmark price at the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) soared by 5% in morning trade in Amsterdam, and the price topped 70 euros, or $81.20, per megawatt-hour (MWh), after the U.S. and Iran resumed trading strikes for the first time in more than a month.
  
  This was the highest price the front-month benchmark futures have seen in more than three and a half years, since January 2023.
  
  Oil prices also soared, by 3.6% in the morning in Europe, amid heightened market concerns that the re-escalation could unwind much of the rebound in oil volumes that are estimated to have left the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks.
  
  The renewed hostilities and the still blocked Strait of Hormuz for LNG traffic is tightening global gas markets, where Asia and Europe are competing for a shrinking pool of supply to fill storage ahead of the coming winter.
  
  Europe is heading for the winter with one of the lowest levels of gas in storage in the past two decades as the war in the Middle East crippled LNG supply from Qatar, sent gas and LNG prices in Europe and Asia skyrocketing, and intensified competition for readily available global LNG cargoes that don't need to cross geopolitically charged chokepoints.
  
  The return of hostilities on Monday and last week's announcement from Qatar that it is extending the force majeure on its LNG deliveries to customers by one month through October are pushing Europe's gas prices higher at the start of this week.
  
  LNG traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remains at a standstill, even though oil flows are estimated to have rebounded in recent weeks.
  
  Unlike crude oil, LNG cannot be shuttle-shipped through Hormuz and then reloaded via a ship-to-ship (STS) transfer, as Persian Gulf producers, including Qatar, have been doing in recent months to ship oil to customers.
  
  Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-09-01
  China Coking Coal Prices Set for Record 46% Monthly Surge
  Supply issues have been tightening the Chinese coking coal market for months, pushing the price of the key steelmaking raw material a record 46% in August alone, the biggest surge on record. Coking coal futures on China’s Dalian exchange were rising... Read more Supply issues have been tightening the Chinese coking coal market for months, pushing the price of the key steelmaking raw material a record 46% in August alone, the biggest surge on record.
  
  Coking coal futures on China’s Dalian exchange were rising by 6% on Monday afternoon local time amid persistent supply issues following the mining disaster in May and increased safety checks on other Chinese mines.
  
  But more importantly, the futures were on track to post a record-setting 46% monthly surge, the biggest on record since the Dalian coking coal futures began trading in 2013, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.
  
  The price rally in August is eclipsing the previous record for a monthly jump, of 38% back in July 2025.
  
  The surge in coking coal prices has spilled outside China. Steelmakers in India, the world’s second-largest steelmaker after China, have seen a squeeze in their margins due to the rallying input prices.
  
  India relies on imports for as much as 95% of its coking coal, or metallurgical coal, demand. Metallurgical coal is a grade of coal that is one of the essential raw materials in the steelmaking process. Also known as met coal, this type of coal contains more carbon, less ash and less moisture than thermal coal, which is used for electricity generation.
  
  The price of premium coking coal freight on board (FOB) in Australia surged by 25% in the first seven months of this year compared to last year due to a series of supply disruptions.
  
  The price increase has been the result of slower ramp-up of new mines, higher prices due to the Iran war, supply disruptions at key producer Australia, and the deadly coal mine explosion in China’s Shanxi province that killed more than 80 people in the worst Chinese mining accident in years.
  
  “Steelmaking coal prices strengthened from CY2025 levels as strong Indian import demand and supply disruptions tightened an otherwise balanced seaborne market,” mining giant BHP said in its Economic and commodity outlook earlier this month. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-09-01
  Iran Dismisses Trump Claim of Kharg Attack as Hostilities Return
  Iran on Monday dismissed as “laughable” a Truth Social AI-generated post by U.S. President Donald Trump that the key Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island is “being blown to smithereens”, as tensions in the Middle East boiled up again with U.S. attacks... Read more Iran on Monday dismissed as “laughable” a Truth Social AI-generated post by U.S. President Donald Trump that the key Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island is “being blown to smithereens”, as tensions in the Middle East boiled up again with U.S. attacks and Iranian claims of retaliatory strikes.
  
  President Trump late on Sunday posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform, with the caption “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!! President DJT”.
  
  In response to the post, Iran on Monday said, via Hamid Bovard, chief executive of government-run National Iranian Oil Company, “Trump’s tweets are laughable and conditions in Kharg are calm and appropriate.”
  
  Kharg Island, a small coral island in the northern Persian Gulf, handles about 90% of all oil exports from Iran. But as of Monday, there was no evidence that the island had been bombed or damaged in any way.
  
  Nevertheless, the beginning of this week marked the resumption of strikes for the first time in several weeks, as U.S. forces struck Iran for the first time in over a month, and Iran later retaliated by targeting U.S. bases in Jordan.
  
  U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island, which sits inside the Strait of Hormuz. According to a U.S. Central Command spokesperson, the attack came after the IRGC were observed “preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz.”
  
  As a result, oil prices jumped in early Monday trade in Asia.
  
  The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vowed “response and punishment” in retaliation for the first U.S. strikes in weeks, which Iran says claimed two lives and injured two other people.
  
  Iran later claimed it had struck two U.S. air bases in Jordan in response to the attack on Larak.
  
  On Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that “Iran's armed forces will not hesitate to exercise the inherent right of self-defence" and will respond decisively and appropriately to any enemy military aggression. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-09-01
  Asia Steps In to Fill Diesel Supply Gap in Africa as Middle East Exports Crash
  Asia’s diesel exports to Africa are surging to nearly five-year highs, as Middle East’s sales to Africa crashed to nine-year lows amid threats to shipping and refinery outages, a Reuters analysis of ship-tracking data and volumes showed on Monday. The... Read more Asia’s diesel exports to Africa are surging to nearly five-year highs, as Middle East’s sales to Africa crashed to nine-year lows amid threats to shipping and refinery outages, a Reuters analysis of ship-tracking data and volumes showed on Monday.
  
  The Middle East conflict has made shipping of fuels, including diesel, to east Africa challenging, with ongoing security threats to tankers in both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. In addition, attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen on Saudi energy infrastructure have also crippled supply from Saudi Arabia, which accounted for as much as 40% of Africa’s diesel imports last year.
  
  So refiners in Asia are expected to have sent up to 15 million barrels of diesel to Africa in August, the highest volume in at least four and a half years, according to the data Reuters has reviewed.
  
  Asian supplies are set to partially offset the diesel exports from the Middle East to Africa, which are tracked to have crumbled to the lowest level in nearly nine years.
  
  Before the war, Africa received around half of its diesel imports from the Middle East, which is the closest major fuel-exporting region to the African continent, especially its eastern coasts.
  
  But this year, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthi threat to Saudi shipments in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Houthi attack on Saudi Aramco’s Jazan oil refinery on Red Sea coast, have reduced the volume of diesel that is freely flowing to Africa.
  
  The Jazan refinery, for example, did not send any diesel to Africa in August, compared to 163,000 tons shipped in July, per data from Kpler cited by Reuters.
  
  The East-West arbitrage remains wide open for Asian exports into Africa, and is likely to remain open as China is easing its fuel export restrictions and other Asian refiners increase run rates, analysts say.
  
  Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-08-31
  Oil rises over 2% as US and Iran resume military attacks
  Oil prices rose more than 2% on Monday after the U.S. attacked an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran said it had retaliated, as their conflict extended into its sixth month. Brent crude futures were up $2.35, or 2.67%, to $90.45 a barrel... Read more Oil prices rose more than 2% on Monday after the U.S. attacked an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran said it had retaliated, as their conflict extended into its sixth month.
  
  Brent crude futures were up $2.35, or 2.67%, to $90.45 a barrel at 1306 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up $2.31, or 2.77%, to $85.71. Brent rose as high as $91.52 earlier in the day, marking its highest level since August 25.
  
  U.S. forces struck two launchers on Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first known American strikes on the country since late July.
  
  In response, Iran attacked two U.S. air bases in Jordan, Iranian media reported on Monday, citing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
  
  MARKET FOCUS IS ON WHETHER SITUATION WILL DE-ESCALATE
  
  "Renewed military strikes in the Middle East and concerns of further oil supply disruptions have lifted oil prices," said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo, adding that markets will focus on whether the situation de-escalates or not.
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being "blown to smithereens", but there was no evidence the island was under attack. The post, which included an AI-generated video, provided no further details. Iran denied any attack on the island and said oil operations were continuing.
  
  Efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict remain stalled as mediators seek to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil supplies passed before the war began at the end of February.
  
  The strong market reaction on Monday reflected in part thin trading volumes due to a UK public holiday, said Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
  
  Shipping data showed the number of visible commodity vessels transiting the strait over the weekend fell to five a day, highlighting caution among operators concerned about attacks on shipping.
  
  The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Sunday that a tanker had been struck by a projectile while entering the strait on Saturday.
  
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. was likely to impose new secondary sanctions on Iran every week.
  
  Despite Monday’s rally, Brent and WTI were still on track to post modest losses for August after falling more than 4% last week, their first weekly declines in three weeks.
  
  Trump also said on Sunday that oil secured under a deal with Venezuela would be used to replenish the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which has fallen to near its lowest level in 44 years.
  
  Source: Reuters/Investing.com
- 2026-08-31
  One-tenth of shipping emissions occur in port – UCL study
  A new research conducted by the University College London (UCL) has mapped where global shipping's greenhouse gas emissions occur, splitting each voyage into time spent in port and time spent at sea. UCL researchers have built an interactive tracker,... Read more A new research conducted by the University College London (UCL) has mapped where global shipping's greenhouse gas emissions occur, splitting each voyage into time spent in port and time spent at sea.
  
  UCL researchers have built an interactive tracker, mapping 1.2 million voyages that show island nations carry outsized port emissions.
  
  The tracker draws on a year of data covering voyages by more than 43,000 vessels, UCL said. The research found that around 10% of global maritime emissions occur within port areas, the university added.
  
  “The tool offers IMO delegations visibility on which of 575 million tonnes of CO2e [575 million mt of CO2 equivalent] emissions generated by international shipping can be attributed to their country’s economic activity,” the report noted.
  
  Seven out of the ten Caribbean, and eight out of the ten East Asia Pacific countries with the highest in-port emissions are small island nations, with emissions “often above 20%” relative to global and regional averages, research assistant at the UCL Shipping and Oceans Research Group Yoseph Ismail said.
  
  This share could be reduced through port electrification measures such as cold ironing at berth, switching to battery power while idling or manoeuvring in port, and converting short-sea vessels to battery-electric propulsion, UCL said.
  
  Shore-to-ship power or “cold ironing” is an electrical power supply provided to ships when they are docked at ports.
  
  Instead of running the engines onboard to power essential systems while docked at ports, shore power facilities allow ships to connect to the local electrical grid.
  
  The research comes on the heels of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) upcoming Net-Zero Framework (NZF) talks scheduled next week.
  
  Future updates to the tracker, due in September, will provide statistics on state-level seaborne trade volumes and estimates of the economic impact of proposed amendments to the IMO NZF framework, ahead of a potential adoption later this year. Source: ENGIИE
- 2026-08-31
  UK Chamber of Shipping: Maritime decarbonisation requires ‘practical measures’ that enable stakeholders to ‘invest with confiden
  As the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) publishes a summary of responses to its strategy for net zero ports, the UK Chamber of Shipping has warned that ‘regulation alone will not delivery the transition’ – because ‘decarbonisation [also] requires progress... Read more
- 2026-08-31
  Quartet of shipowners order dual-fuel LNG Vinga tankers
  Four shipping companies from Sweden, Norway, and Canada have ordered four new dual-fuel LNG ships — taking the series 26 vessels. The new investment was announced by Furetank today (28 August) in conjunction with the naming ceremony for Fure Vasa,... Read more
- 2026-08-31
  Singapore and Brazil partnering on green and digital shipping corridor
  Singapore and Brazil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the Singapore-Brazil Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC). In a statement issued today (28 August), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said the... Read more
- 2026-08-31
  Colonial Group to buy Foster Fuels
  Savannah-based Colonial Group, Inc. has informed ship.energy that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Foster Fuels, a Virginia-based provider of fuel, lubricants, propane, and ‘mission critical’ energy services. Foster Fuels’ mission critical... Read more

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