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06 Mar 2019

Torm Joins Inatech for IMO 2020 Bunker App

Danish product tanker operator Torm has joined Glencore subsidiary Inatech on an app to tackle the anticipated complex bunkering landscape in shipping post-2020.Inatech, which specialises in energy trading risk management systems, has built the ‘Smart Trader’ app to enable companies to map their entire fleet of ships and visualise best routes given sea and port conditions to achieve lowest prices for the desired quality of fuel.The toolkit leverages bunker alerts and pricing data from S&P Global Platts, the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the energy and commodities markets."Torm, the tanker company that’s one of the world’s biggest carriers of refined oil products…

15 Sep 2003

Lintec : Technical Support is a Must

provide their customers with the proper levels of technical support. double-checking the accuracy of the sample tests that are being processed. tools.

05 Nov 2003

Bunker Alerts are in Danger of Becoming Junk Mail

becoming junk mail. customer. alerts," says John Dixon, managing director of Lintec Testing Services. "In the event of a bunker alert, shipowners and operators should not panic. distributed to masses of recipients. junk mail. Dixon says, "Bunker alerts suffer from many problems. sensitive to their fuel buying practices. inform the client personally. situation.

26 Feb 2001

Short Delivery of Bunkers

With the recent increases in bunker prices the question of the quantity of received bunkers has re-appeared creating the problems of alleged short deliveries of this costly material. Some of the methods and techniques which are used by the bunker barges delivering fuel to avoid full delivery, or at least make the vessel believe that it has received its full contracted amount, appear to range from at best most devious to the outright scandalous. During the past months DNVPS have issued their Bunker Alerts warning their customers of the devious use of compressed air or nitrogen that was used by certain bunker barges in Singapore for the apparent clearing of pipelines upon completion of delivery of bunkers to a vessel.