Hambantota bunker prices
LKHBA · LK · Major bunkering hub
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Hambantota, 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 Hambantota
Read from each company's own published coverage of this port. No port authority register was found for Hambantota, 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 Hambantota
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Hambantota gives you two ways to take fuel. Since January 2025 the port has run what it calls Sri Lanka's first shore-based bunker tank farm: a dedicated high-sulphur fuel oil facility of 6,000 cubic metres across two tanks, pumped through a pipeline that runs directly to the port's oil jetties at 400 metric tonnes an hour, so a scrubber-fitted ship can take HSFO alongside. VLSFO and marine gas oil (MGO/MDO) are the other grades offered; the facility was proved with a discharge of 5,000 t HSFO and 20,000 t VLSFO from the Grand Ace 10 between 30 January and 1 February. Away from the berth, bunkers are delivered offshore at the Hambantota anchorage by the oil barge m.v. Kumana, chartered to Lanka Marine Services by the port. Wholesale fuel comes in through Sinopec Fuel Oil Lanka, with licensed local suppliers doing the physical delivery on the busy east-west route.
- HIP does not publish a maximum stem size for either the jetty pipeline delivery or the barge m.v. Kumana.
- Whether jetty (pipeline) bunkering is open to any caller or tied to cargo calls at the oil jetties is not stated on HIP's pages.
- Availability of bunkering at Outer Port Limits (OPL) is not confirmed on HIP's own pages, only in third-party reporting.
- Draught alongside the oil jetties is not published on the bunkering pages read.
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 Hambantota, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Colombolow | VLSFO | $900 | 2026-09-0145d |
| VLSFO | $930 | 2026-09-0344d | |
| VLSFO | $950 | 2026-09-0542d | |
| VLSFO | $960 | 2026-09-0740d | |
| VLSFO | $955 | 2026-09-0938d | |
| VLSFO | $960 | 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.
Hambantota bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Hambantota today?
- No price is published at Hambantota. The closest port where one is, is Colombo, about 91 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $900 a tonne.
- Is Hambantota 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 Hambantota?
- Hambantota 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.