Luanda bunker prices
AOLAD · AO · Major bunkering hub
Who supplies fuel at Luanda
1 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 Luanda
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-30.
Delivery is from a tanker, not from the quay. The port authority's own services page lists heavy fuel oil available through Sonangol and describes no bunkering pipeline and no road tanker route; the physical suppliers publish their fleets instead. Famar Energies lists three oil and chemical tankers, one of 13,423 cubic metres pumping at 1,200 cubic metres an hour and two smaller ones of 6,331 and 4,573 cubic metres at 600, and offers VLSFO and low sulphur marine gas oil around the clock. A second Luanda supplier, ATH Trading, describes regular services supplying MGO and IFO to offshore, fishing and cargo vessels. Those hull capacities are the practical ceiling on a single stem; no maximum is published by the port.
Ships can lie safely at anchor in Luanda Bay, where the entrance channel carries 15 to 30 metres, and the port works 24 hours with a maximum draught of 13.2 metres at high water and 10.5 to 12.5 metres alongside. The port authority states that vessels anchored or moored may take provisions and spares only with express approval and through specialised shipping agencies; it does not extend that wording to fuel, and it publishes nothing on whether bunkering may run at the same time as cargo. Both points need confirming through the agent rather than assumed. Pilotage by EPIBAL is compulsory above 500 gross tons and towage is provided by EPINOSUL at all terminals. No notice period for a bunker stem is published by the port or by either supplier, so lead time is the question to settle first.
- The port authority does not state how bunkers physically reach the ship (barge, pipeline or road tanker)
- No confirmation from the port or suppliers that bunkering is permitted at anchorage in Luanda Bay
- No published maximum or minimum stem size
- No published notice period or lead time for a stem
- Nothing published on whether bunkering may run simultaneously with cargo operations
- No published night-time, swell or weather restriction
Ask the supplier to confirm these before you fix a stem on them.
No price is published at Luanda. The closest port where one is, is Durban, about 1,610 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $927 a tonne.
Durban →That is Durban's price, not this port's, and the distance is a great-circle estimate rather than a routed passage. It is here because a benchmark you can see the distance to is more use than a blank space.
Indicative only. Typical stem time here is about 8 hours alongside.
Luanda bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Luanda today?
- No price is published at Luanda. The closest port where one is, is Durban, about 1,610 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $927 a tonne.
- Is Luanda 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 Luanda?
- Luanda 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.