Valdez bunker prices
USVDZ · US · Major bunkering hub
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Valdez, 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 Valdez
Read from each company's own published coverage of this port. No port authority register was found for Valdez, 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 Valdez
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
Valdez is dominated by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline's marine outlet, the Alyeska Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT), where tankers load Alaska North Slope crude. The operator lists Berths 4 and 5 in service, both with vapour-recovery arms, with Berths 1 and 3 out of service, and says the largest tankers carry "up to 2 million barrels", roughly 20 tankers a month, about a day alongside to load. That makes Valdez a crude-export berth, not a bunker port: the terminal pages describe loading crude, not selling marine fuel to visiting ships.
The City of Valdez separately runs the John Thomas Kelsey municipal dock, but I could not confirm from a port-authority page whether its fuelling extends to oceangoing bunkers or is only small-craft fuel. Treat Valdez as a place to load cargo, not to stem, and pin down any bunker arrangement with a named supplier before fixing.
- I found no published physical bunker supplier or barge operation serving Valdez
- No maximum bunker stem size is published for Valdez
- Whether the Kelsey municipal dock's fuelling covers oceangoing bunkers is unconfirmed by an authority page; only a directory lists "fueling"
- Tug and escort requirements at the VMT were not on the pages I 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 Valdez, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Vancouverlow | VLSFO | $864 | 2026-09-0146d |
| VLSFO | $902 | 2026-09-0345d | |
| VLSFO | $902 | 2026-09-0543d | |
| VLSFO | $902 | 2026-09-0741d | |
| VLSFO | $942 | 2026-09-0939d | |
| VLSFO | $942 | 2026-09-1137d |
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.
Valdez bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Valdez today?
- No price is published at Valdez. The closest port where one is, is Vancouver, about 1,054 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $864 a tonne.
- Is Valdez 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 Valdez?
- Valdez 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.