Biofuel Bunker Snapshot: Conventional VLSFO prices weigh on B30 blend prices in International Shipping News 25/05/2026 Rotterdam and Europe Rotterdam’s B30-VLSFO (POMEME) price has decreased by around $59/mt in the last week. A drop in the port’s conventional VLSFO price has weighed on the blend’s price. Prima Markets has assessed a $16/mt fall in ARA POMEME barge prices. This may also have put a downward pressure on the B30-VLSFO blend price. Rotterdam’s B30-LSMGO (POMEME) price has also decreased around $45/mt, weighed down by a drop of $114/mt in Rotterdam’s conventional LSMGO price. Rotterdam’s B30-LSMGO price premium over LSMGO has widened by around $69/mt in the past day. Rotterdam’s B30-LSMGO price offers a $128/mt discount to Lisbon’s B30-LSMGO, and $114/mt discount to Piraeus’ B30-LSMGO price. Gibraltar’s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) price has dropped $54/mt lower in the last week. A $31/mt drop in the port’s conventional VLSFO price has weighed on the price. Lisbon’s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) has fallen more sharply by around $72/mt. This has widened its price discount to Gibraltar’s B30-VLSFO by around $18/mt during the week. Getting deliveries of biofuel blends in both Rotterdam and Gibraltar may take around 7-10 days, a trader said. Singapore Singapore’s B30-VLSFO (UCOME) price has dropped around $25/mt during the week. A $37/mt drop in the port’s VLSFO price has put downward pressure on the blend price. Singapore’s blend price now holds a $243/mt price premium over the conventional fuel price. Singapore’s bio-blended bunker sales declined sharply in April, falling 26%, to their lowest level since January. Total volumes dropped to 68,000 mt, from 92,000 mt sold in March, and were almost 39% lower than the 111,000 mt recorded in the same month last year. In other biofuel news this week, Bunker supplier Fratelli Cosulich has taken delivery of an IMO Type 2 bunker vessel to meet low-emission bunker demand in Singapore. UK-based biofuel company HutanBio has partnered with bio