Varna bunker prices
BGVAR · BG · Major bunkering hub · Emission Control Area · EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime apply
Arithmetic on the 6 nearest ports where a price was observed, weighted by distance. Nobody has quoted this at Varna, 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 Varna
Read from each company's own published coverage of this port. No port authority register was found for Varna, 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 Varna
Operational notes, from the port authority and the suppliers’ own published documents. Checked 2026-08-31.
At Varna fuel comes aboard by barge and by truck from resident physical suppliers rather than from a terminal pipeline. LUKOIL Bulgaria Bunker supplies Varna with "three own bunkering tankers" plus others under operation, offering "gas oil and IFO with viscosity from 30 cSt up to 380 cSt". Petromar supplies with "our own barge and trucks in all Bulgarian Black Sea ports", delivering "gasoil and VLSFO" both alongside and "on the Roads", i.e. at anchorage.
Geography decides where a ship can go. The port splits into Varna East (14 berths) and the larger Varna West (22 berths), the latter reached only through the Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav canal system: "Channel 1 with draft 11.5 m and Channel 2 with draft 11.0 m", with Varna East limited to about 11.5 m draft and Varna West to about 11.2 m. Varna West also carries an air-draft limit of "41.5 m", so a West-bound ship is boxed by both draft and height. The port handles vessels up to 50,000 gross tons.
- Neither the port nor the suppliers I read publish a maximum bunker stem size for Varna
- The sources I read give no port-authority bunkering rules or designated bunker berths/anchorage for Varna
- Fuel sulphur grades were not fully specified: Petromar lists gasoil and VLSFO, LUKOIL lists gas oil and IFO 30-380 cSt, but neither page I read states sulphur content or HSFO availability
- I found no source designating the Black Sea or Varna as a SOx Emission Control Area, so confirm the applicable sulphur limit before assuming 0.10%
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 Varna, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Istanbullow | VLSFO | $811 | 2026-09-0146d |
Istanbullow | VLSFO | $811 | 2026-08-3147d |
| VLSFO | $821 | 2026-09-0145d | |
| VLSFO | $835 | 2026-09-0344d | |
| VLSFO | $850 | 2026-09-0343d | |
| VLSFO | $848 | 2026-09-0443d |
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.
Varna bunkering FAQ
- What is the bunker price at Varna today?
- No price is published at Varna. The closest port where one is, is Istanbul, about 140 nautical miles away — VLSFO at $811 a tonne.
- Is Varna 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 Varna?
- Varna is in the EU/EEA, so voyages to, from and within it fall under the EU Emissions Trading System, and FuelEU Maritime applies to ships of 5,000 GT and above. That adds a real per-tonne cost that a headline bunker price does not show.