In 2018, the sale of bunker oil – fuel for shipping – in the Rotterdam bunker port decreased from 9.9 million m3 to 9.5 million m3. The decrease can almost entirely be ascribed to the decline in sales of heavy fuel oil from 8.3 million m3 to 7.9 million m3. The throughput of LNG – liquefied natural gas – as bunker fuel increased considerably from 1,500 to 9,500 tonnes.
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority suspects that the decline in bunker volumes in Europe’s largest...