China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. (CMB), the Singapore branch of a bank incorporated in the People’s Republic of China, continues to build its case over a USD 9.2 million (exact: USD 9,239,459.80) bunker-related claim against Singapore-based Sinfeng Marine Services Pte. Ltd. (Sinfeng), according to a statement of claim dated March 2026 reviewed by Manifold Times . After successfully obtaining ‘pre-action discovery’ of additional documents in 2021, CMB in 2024 started a legal suit against Sinfeng over allegations of deceit and misrepresentation, according to documents obtained from the Supreme Court. CMB’s claim against Sinfeng stems from trade financing facilities extended to defunct Singapore bunker supplier Coastal Oil Singapore Pte Ltd (COS), which entered liquidation on 13 December 2018 after allegedly owing a total of USD 380 million to at least 10 financial institutions. BACKGROUND On 16 June 2017, CMB granted COS an uncommitted Export Invoicing Facility of USD 10 million (the Facility) to provide trade financing for COS’s export invoices relating to fuel oil and oil products sold to Sinfeng and/or its related company, Cosco Petroleum Pte Ltd. On 29 October 2018, CMB received a drawdown notice from COS requesting use of the Facility to support the sale of 25,000 metric tonnes (+/- 5%) of Fuel Oil 380 CST or 500 CST, said to have been made between COS and Sinfeng on or about 26 September 2018 under contract TGS/1809-034. The receiving vessels identified for the bunkering operation, allegedly conducted from 30 to 31 October 2018 at OPL Malaysia, were the KAZIMAH III , GREEK WARRIOR , GLORIC , WEDYAN and SKOPELOS . CONTRACT TGS/1809-34 MISSING, BUT LATER FOUND Following COS’s liquidation, CMB notified COS on 14 December 2018 the USD 10 million Facility had been cancelled and terminated with immediate effect, and demanded immediate repayment of all sums due, owing or payable under the Facility. On the same day, representatives of the bank visited Sinfeng’s office, wh