Bilbao bunker prices
ESBIO · 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 Bilbao, 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.
Who supplies fuel at Bilbao
Read from each company's own published coverage of this port. No port authority register was found for Bilbao, so treat this as a starting list rather than a complete one.
Their bunker desks, or send one request and let the replies come to you.
Taking fuel at Bilbao
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Bilbao's fuelling activity sits in the outer Abra bay, west of the city around Santurtzi and Zierbena, where the Petronor refinery and the BBG plant handle the port's petroleum and LNG. LNG is the best-documented part of the picture: Repsol has built a dedicated LNG bunkering terminal in the port with a 1,000 m³ cryogenic tank that holds gas at about -160°C, an investment of more than €10 million, chiefly to fuel Brittany Ferries' LNG-powered ropax Salamanca and Santoña. The terminal's design is flexible enough to serve other vessels, a twin terminal performs the same role at Santander for the same ships, and the project is co-financed through the EU's CEF programme. As an EU port, EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime obligations apply. For conventional residual and distillate stems, line up the grade, delivery method and quantity directly with your supplier: the pages I could reach set out the LNG facility but not conventional bunkering terms.
- The delivery method for conventional bunkers at Bilbao (barge afloat, ex-pipe at a Petronor berth, or road tanker) is not stated on the pages I could open; the port authority's own service pages were behind bot-protection and would not load.
- No published maximum stem size for conventional fuel-oil deliveries was found.
- The LNG delivery method (truck-to-ship versus a fixed berth) is not stated in the reachable source describing the Repsol terminal.
- The brief flags Bilbao as inside an Emission Control Area, but Biscay is outside the Mediterranean SOx ECA and I could not confirm a formally in-force ECA covering this coast — worth verifying rather than assuming.
Ask the supplier to confirm these before you fix a stem on them.
The working behind the estimate above.
Those are prices at those ports, not at Bilbao, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Huelvalow | VLSFO | $700 | 2026-09-0145d |
| VLSFO | $708 | 2026-09-0343d | |
Huelvalow | VLSFO | $700 | 2026-09-0542d |
Huelvalow | VLSFO | $700 | 2026-09-0740d |
| VLSFO | $718 | 2026-09-0938d | |
| VLSFO | $708 | 2026-09-1136d |
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.
Bilbao bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Bilbao today?
- No price is published at Bilbao. The closest port where one is, is Valencia, about 258 nautical miles away — MGO at $1610 a tonne.
- Is Bilbao 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 Bilbao?
- Bilbao 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.