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Previous Issue - Volume 5, Number 4

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Regular content

NEWS

Bunker Markets and Prices
Europe
Americas
Asia Pacific
Africa and Mideast

BUNKERSPOT WORLD MAP

Global prices and news at a glance

EVENTS

IBIA's Annual Convention in November will provide the Association's members with the perfect opportunity to determine its future. Ian Adams, Secretary General of IBIA, outlines some of the highlights that can be expected in Cape Town.

Events and training course diary

NETWORKING

Bunker people on the move

Features

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COMMERCIAL ISSUES

Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes sails with Brittany Ferries to see how the French cross-channel ferry company is coping with soaring oil prices, living inside a SECA and shifting exchange rates

COUNTRY PROFILE

Dave Waterman surveys the changing outlook for the bunker market in Malta.

WEATHER ROUTING

Richard Brown of Applied Weather Technology looks at how weather routing can help to optimise ships' fuel consumption

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Everyone knows that reducing CO2 means reducing fuel consumption, but how? Nick Dearden of Greenwave - shipping's new environmental charity - shows the way

Andy Osbourne argues that Krystallon's scrubbing technology offers an antidote to rising fuel costs and emissions

John D. McCown, DEO of Trailer Bridge, offers an operator's perspective on the debate over ships' emissions

OPERATIONAL ISSUES

Tom Marion reports on how the crew of Buffalo Marine Service's barge San Rafael helped to prevent a calamity on the Houston Ship Channel

Kittiwake tells Bunkerspot that its LinerSCAN - the world's first real-time alarm system for engine liner wear - will help prevent critical engine damage, and offer shipowners the chance to save on lube oil costs

FUEL OIL TESTING

Tommy Christensen presents the CBI Portable Fuel Oil Test Kit

FUEL QUALITY

Nigel Draffin looks at the changing nature of the debate on bunker fuel specifications