Dubrovnik bunker prices
HRDBV · HR · 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 Dubrovnik, 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 Dubrovnik
6 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.
Taking fuel at Dubrovnik
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Dubrovnik (Gruž) is the Gruž and Batahovina basins plus the anchorage off the islet of Daksa. The port authority publishes nine berths, 1,600 m of operational quay, a maximum draught of 11 m and no length or beam limit, with pilotage compulsory, tugs available and fuel supply among the port services. The ministry's list shows four fuel-supply concessionaires here: INA, Crodux Derivati Dva, Coral Croatia and Navis Supplementum.
Timing is the constraint. Article 54 of the port rules says fuelling may not begin before passenger and vehicle disembarkation has finished, and embarkation may only start once fuelling is done. The port authority's 2022 operating instruction requires prior approval from the port authority or the harbourmaster and an approved location for handling dangerous or polluting substances, allows it in daylight only unless ship and quay are properly lit, permits it only in favourable weather, and obliges a concessionaire handling packaged dangerous goods - a road tanker or gas cylinder - to stop work if the protective measures, the equipment or the weather are not right.
INA publishes a grade list only: EURODIESEL, EURODIESEL BLUE and marine diesel (FDMA), plus residual INA F RME 180 and INA F RMG 380.
- No commercial terms of any kind are published: INA's marine fuel page carries the grade list and two e-mail addresses (one for deliveries to ships in the Croatian market, one for deliveries abroad) and says nothing about price, excise or VAT; the Croatian version is the same. Any earlier statement about tax treatment was unfounded and has been removed.
- Neither the port authority nor any of the four concessionaires publishes a maximum stem size, barge capacity, pumping rate, notice period or lead time for Dubrovnik.
- The port rules and the operating instruction do not say whether fuel reaches a ship at Gruž by barge, by road tanker or by both; the operating instruction addresses packaged dangerous goods (road tanker, gas cylinders) explicitly and says nothing specific about a bunker barge.
- The classes and quantities of dangerous goods permitted, and the approved handling locations, sit in a separate port authority rulebook and in Maps 2 and 3 annexed to the operating instruction, which were not read.
- No published rule was found on bunkering at the Daksa anchorage as distinct from alongside.
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 Dubrovnik, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 2026-09-0145d |
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 2026-09-0343d |
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 2026-09-0541d |
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 2026-09-0740d |
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 2026-09-0938d |
Livornolow | VLSFO | $549 | 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.
Dubrovnik bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Dubrovnik today?
- No price is published at Dubrovnik. The closest port where one is, is Livorno, about 345 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $549 a tonne.
- Is Dubrovnik 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 Dubrovnik?
- Dubrovnik 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.