Adelaide bunker prices
AUADL · AU · Major bunkering hub
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Adelaide, and it carries nothing about the barge, the volume or your credit — which is what actually sets the number.
Why there is no assessment here yet
Only 0 observations in the last 72 hours. We publish an assessment from 3 or more.
No price is published for this port yet. Our assessment is built only from what we observe here — prices suppliers submit to us, quotes received against requests raised here, and stems that close — so it appears once this port has traffic. A request raised now still reaches suppliers; it does not wait for an index.
Our own assessment, computed from observations made on this platform: prices submitted by suppliers, quotes received against requests raised here, and stems that closed. Weighted by how firm each observation is (a closed stem counts three times a list price), by how recent it is, and by parcel size. Values more than 15% from the median are excluded. No third-party assessment is used as an input, and no number is published from fewer than three observations or fewer than two independent sources.
Taking fuel at Adelaide
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-30.
Flinders Ports lists exactly one bunkering point at Adelaide, and its published limits decide almost everything. BP has run a pipeline facility at N Berth in the Inner Harbour since October 2016, fed from the Largs North Terminal and operated by contractor ATOM. The port publishes the constraints: vessels up to 120 metres length overall, eight metres draft, a flow rate of 130 cubic metres an hour, and daylight operating hours, still flagged as interim. Anything longer than 120 metres cannot use the pipe, and the port's service provider directory names no bunker barge and no second bunkering location. The Inner Harbour otherwise takes 206 metres and 9.3 metres maintained depth; Outer Harbor takes 350 metres and 14.2 metres, and its OH4 common-user fuel berth handles MR and LR tankers to 300 metres, but that is published as a cargo berth for the terminal, not as a bunker point.
The berthing rules matter as much as the hardware. Under the Master Port Rules bunkering is a non-working purpose, so a vessel wanting a berth in order to bunker is given priority only after consultation with Flinders Ports and at its sole and absolute discretion, and a ship that stops working can be sent off the berth to anchorage at its own cost and put to the back of the queue.
Notice is formal rather than timed: the agent submits a Bunkering Notice to the duty VTS officer, who signs and returns it, and no work may start before that. No lead time, maximum stem or grade slate is published.
- No road-tanker bunkering option is published by Flinders Ports, so how vessels over 120 m LOA actually take…
- No maximum stem size published for the N Berth pipeline
- No lead time stated for the Bunkering Notice
- No grade slate published by the port (whether VLSFO as well as MGO/ULSD is physically available at N Berth…
- Neither the Master Port Rules nor the Port Adelaide Port Rules address simultaneous bunkering and cargo work
Ask the supplier to confirm these before you fix a stem on them.
Who supplies fuel at Adelaide
13 of these are on the port authority's register of licensed suppliers. The rest publish their own coverage of this port.
Their bunker desks, or send one request and let the replies come to you.
The working behind the estimate above.
Those are prices at those ports, not at Adelaide, and the distances are great-circle rather than routed. The estimate above is arithmetic on them — it carries no information about the barge, the volume or your credit, which is what actually sets the number. A request is the only way to get a real one.
Indicative only. Typical stem time here is about 8 hours alongside.
VLSFO at nearby and alternative ports
| Port | Grade | USD / MT | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
Rotterdamlow | VLSFO | $663 | 2026-08-30 |
| VLSFO | $680 | 2026-08-31 | |
| VLSFO | $695 | 2026-08-30 | |
| VLSFO | $734 | 2026-08-30 | |
| VLSFO | $781 | 2026-08-30 | |
| VLSFO | $785 | 2026-08-31 |
Indicative, delivered basis. Source: a licensed feed. Not an offer to sell — a firm price exists only once a supplier has quoted.
A lower headline price at another port is not automatically a saving. Deviation burns fuel and charter hire, and a bunker-only call costs port time.
Adelaide bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Adelaide today?
- No price is published at Adelaide. The closest port where one is, is Singapore, about 2,920 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $785 a tonne.
- Is Adelaide a cheap bunkering port?
- Whether a port is cheap for your vessel depends on the deviation cost, not just the headline price — reaching a cheaper port costs charter hire and fuel.
- Does EU ETS apply at Adelaide?
- Adelaide is outside the EU/EEA, so EU ETS does not apply to a call here in itself. It may still apply to the voyage legs if your vessel is heading to or from an EU port.