Imtrade trading company offers IMO 2020 compliant fuel in the Russian far east from the early days on May. Specifically, the company sales 0.5% sulphur bunker fuel with 80cst viscosity on a delivered basis at the ports of Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochnyi, Kozmino, Posyet, Zarubino.
Imtrade is offering the fuel at around $550/mt, a premium of about $150 over HSFO.
Although the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) hasn’t submitted a unified standard for 0.5% sulphur fuel, the company’s product is most likely meeting ISO 8217-2010 specification.
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In addition, Imtrade sources the product components from several Siberian refineries and blends them at one of the terminals of the Russian far east.
Concluding, the blending capacity is at some 3,000-5,000t per month with the possibility of increasing output to 10,000t.
