Punta Arenas bunker prices
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Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Punta Arenas, 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 Punta Arenas
4 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 Punta Arenas
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Programme the fuel job or pay for it. Article 19 of EPAUSTRAL's tariff manual and port services regulation, current from 1 January 2026, requires fuel-transfer faenas to be booked in the Sistema de Atencion a la Nave together with the Maritime Authority's dangerous-goods handling request, its authorisation number entered in the observations field of the programming form. Miss it and the fine in table G applies; and depending on the operating condition of the pier, unprogrammed faenas can be suspended.
Article 69 has EPAUSTRAL providing the infrastructure for the distributors' equipment, with its contractor at Arturo Prat and Mardones working a checklist drawn from the Normativa para Faenas de Combustibles o Bunkering and logging the cubic metres delivered. Article 70 bills in cubic metres for faenas transferring above 15 m3, and per event below that.
Arturo Prat offers 682 linear metres over six sitios, maximum authorised LOA 258.6 m on the south front and 217 m on the north, and 9 m maximum authorised draught. Ship-to-ship is done here: Copec Marine Fuels delivered 843 m3 of MGO to Le Commandant Charcot in about five hours in October 2021, where the supplier said trucks could in some cases take more than a day.
- The wind semaphore's red light is defined in the manual only as suspending "las faenas portuarias de transferencia de cargas de las naves" - cargo transfer - and appears in the minimum-performance article in connection with the exterior site of the J.S. Mardones terminal; no source says it also stops a fuel transfer, so the wind threshold for bunkering has to be asked of the Capitania de Puerto.
- The "Normativa para Faenas de Combustibles o Bunkering" that Article 69's checklist comes from is referenced but not published, so its actual conditions, notice periods and safety requirements could not be read.
- Article 70's actual prices sit in the Tabla Otros Servicios of Anexo 01, a separate document that was not located, so the per-cubic-metre and per-event charges are unknown.
- No maximum stem size for fuel supply is stated by EPAUSTRAL in either the manual or the terminal page.
- No source states where a ship too deep for Arturo Prat's 9 m authorised draught would take fuel, nor whether a designated bunkering position exists at anchor off Punta Arenas.
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 Punta Arenas, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Bahia Blancalow | VLSFO | $802 | 2026-09-0145d |
| VLSFO | $812 | 2026-09-0343d | |
| VLSFO | $812 | 2026-09-0542d | |
| VLSFO | $812 | 2026-09-0740d | |
| VLSFO | $827 | 2026-09-0938d | |
| VLSFO | $827 | 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.
Punta Arenas bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Punta Arenas today?
- No price is published at Punta Arenas. The closest port where one is, is Bahia Blanca, about 936 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $802 a tonne.
- Is Punta Arenas 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 Punta Arenas?
- Punta Arenas 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.