In 2016 the sale of bunker oil - fuel for shipping - in the Rotterdam bunker port diminished from 10.6 million m3 to 10.1 million m3. There is no reason known for this decline. For the first time, ships bunkered a sea-going vessel with LNG, liquefied natural gas, in Rotterdam.
Fuel Oil
Gas Oil
Diesel Oil
Lubricating Oil
Total
2015
8738510
1,634,053
167048
94857
10634468
m3
2016
8483644
1426879
139035
96326
10145844
m3
Whats this about?
It is the “uncontained” shipments that draw a lifetime allegiance of purveyors of the business. As one MPV (Multi Purpose Vessel) analyst bluntly said as an aside, “Boxes are boring.”
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