Largest Bunkering Port is the First to Go Fully Digital
All bunker suppliers in Singapore must move away from physical documents beginning in April 2025, when they will have to provide digital bunkering services and issue electronic bunker delivery notes as the default.
Officials say the move to digital bunkering—Singapore will be the first port to require it—will boost transparency and save up to 40,000 man-days a year in documentation exchanges among bunker suppliers, ship owners and port authorities.
Singapore began a pilot bunkering scheme in November 2023, but it has not been made mandatory until now.
“This represents a key milestone to further strengthen the competitiveness and efficiency of bunkering in Singapore,” the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said in a statement.
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