Tianjin bunker prices
CNTXG · CN · Major bunkering hub
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Tianjin, 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 Tianjin
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 Tianjin
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Fuel comes off a supply vessel that comes alongside. Recorded deliveries: 1,248 tonnes to WAN HAI 359 at Tianjin Port Euroasia International Container Terminal on 30 November 2024, the first stem under Tianjin's own bonded bunkering licence; 700 tonnes to LI DIAN 3 on 9 March 2026, supervised by Nanjiang Customs; and 880 tonnes on 1 April 2026 to a ship berthed at Jingtang, loaded at a Tianjin Port wharf. Scale is not the worry the licence date suggests - Tianjin Customs recorded 2,625,400 tonnes of bonded marine fuel oil bunkered and distributed across 2024 as a whole, most of it before that licence existed.
Ask for a supplier by name. PetroChina (Tianjin) Fuel Oil was the city's first licensee, holding since November 2024, with 200,000 tonnes supplied since; a second, privately owned licensee was approved in January 2026.
If your ship lies at Caofeidian, Jingtang, Huanghua or Qinhuangdao, fuel can still come from Tianjin: fourteen carriers of 45,000 tonnes deadweight between them run that cross-customs-district direct supply, which moved 170,000 tonnes through the first quarter of 2026.
- No maximum stem size is published for Tianjin; the largest single delivery in any source found is the 1,248 tonnes of 30 November 2024.
- No official source found states whether bonded bunkering is permitted at anchorage - every documented delivery is a supply vessel coming alongside a ship at a berth.
- No grade list or sulphur specification is published; PetroChina says it is working towards bio bunker fuel, bonded LNG and green methanol, but no source confirms any of them in service.
- Tianjin MSA's interim measures on waterborne low-flashpoint fuel bunkering are reported to exist (six chapters, thirty-two articles, plus one annex) but the full text is not published on the bureau's own site, so its notice periods and conditions could not be read.
- No pumping rates, barge lead times, or port dues for a bunkers-only call at Tianjin are published.
- The 2024 figure of 2,625,400 tonnes covers bunkering and distribution combined; no source separates the bunkered tonnage from the distributed tonnage.
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 Tianjin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Qingdaolow | VLSFO | $753 | 2026-09-0145d |
| VLSFO | $769 | 2026-09-0343d | |
| VLSFO | $769 | 2026-09-0541d | |
| VLSFO | $769 | 2026-09-0739d | |
| VLSFO | $932 | 2026-09-0937d | |
| VLSFO | $932 | 2026-09-1135d |
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.
Tianjin bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Tianjin today?
- No price is published at Tianjin. The closest port where one is, is Qingdao, about 216 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $753 a tonne.
- Is Tianjin 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 Tianjin?
- Tianjin 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.