The Risk Factor Behind Changing Ship Fuel Quality

The shipping sector is providing an outlet for surplus oil products such as diesel that have swelled due to a virus-driven demand hit.
But questions about changing ship fuel quality are starting to raise concerns.
Diesel & straight-run kerosene is usually processed into jet fuel, increasingly being used to make very low-sulfur fuel oil for ships, helps to alleviate a glut of middle distillates.
Routine sampling of VLSFO is showing that some blends are becoming less viscous, or thinner may...