Barcelona bunker prices
ESBCN · ES · Major bunkering hub · Emission Control Area · EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime apply
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Barcelona, 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 Barcelona
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Conventional fuel is simple enough: Moeve lists Barcelona among its supply ports, offering ULSFO and MGO alongside the traditional HSFO, delivered by barge and by tanker truck.
LNG is where Barcelona is unusual. The port authority reports 236,946 m³ supplied in 2025, up 3 per cent, over 547 operations: 447 by tanker truck for 47,593 m³ and 100 from barge for 189,353 m³, about 106 m³ a truck job against 1,894 a barge job, so the method decides the size of the stem. The barge is the Haugesund Knutsen of Knutsen-Scale Gas, permanently based in the port since the start of 2023, and the authority says she ran several months of 2025 at maximum operational capacity.
The same release says raising volume needs more suppliers and more barges, that the commercial LNG service specification is still being drafted with a simplified authorisation by receiving ship type, and that the first barge supplies to container ships and to ships at anchor are only planned for 2026. In July 2026 Repsol put 2,800 tonnes of bioethanol into the 16,000 TEU Antonia Maersk from the Bahía Candela.
- Moeve publishes no maximum stem size, pumping rate or barge names for Barcelona.
- The port authority does not break the 100 LNG barge operations of 2025 down by receiving ship type, so no vessel mix can be stated for that year.
- No source read gives the Haugesund Knutsen's capacity, or says what maximum operational capacity means in cubic metres or in days.
- Neither the authority nor Moeve publishes a list of licensed conventional bunker suppliers, or the number of conventional barges working the port.
- No notice period or booking lead time is published for conventional or for LNG bunkering.
Ask the supplier to confirm these before you fix a stem on them.
Who supplies fuel at Barcelona
3 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 Barcelona, 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 | 2026-08-31 |
| VLSFO | $680 | 2026-08-31 | |
| VLSFO | $695 | 2026-08-31 | |
| VLSFO | $734 | 2026-08-31 | |
| VLSFO | $781 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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.
Barcelona bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Barcelona today?
- No price is published at Barcelona. The closest port where one is, is Gibraltar, about 471 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $695 a tonne.
- Is Barcelona 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 Barcelona?
- Barcelona is in the EU/EEA, so voyages to, from and within it fall under the EU Emissions Trading System, and FuelEU Maritime applies to ships of 5,000 GT and above. That adds a real per-tonne cost that a headline bunker price does not show.