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APEX ABI Singapore LSFO Futures now ready to start trading ops

The first contract month to trade is December 2019, with a total of 12 consecutive monthly contracts listed.

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The Asia Pacific Exchange on Friday (18 October) launched the APEX Argus Bunker Index (ABI) Singapore LSFO 0.5%S Futures Contract (APEX ABI Singapore LSFO Futures).

The first contract month to trade is December 2019, with a total of 12 consecutive monthly contracts listed.

Ships without scrubbers are required to use compliant bunker fuel with a sulphur content of 0.5% or less, a reduction from the current 3.5%, when IMO 2020 takes effect from 1 January 2020.

“Consequently, the marine fuels industry and shipping companies are facing a huge challenge hedging the price of this new fuel,” said APEX.

“The APEX ABI Singapore LSFO Futures shall be the first derivatives product worldwide that provides delivered bunker price trading and hedging for 0.5% Sulphur fuel.

“Given that no industry price benchmark for this fuel type was previously established, this new APEX product will provide market participants including ship owners with purchasing requirements and suppliers holding fuel inventory an instrument for accurate hedging.

“In addition, it may create opportunities for spread trading to crude and other refined oil markets.”

Open positions at expiration will be cash settled. The final settlement price shall be the average of all available price assessments published by Argus Media for Singapore LSFO 0.5%S Bunker during the Contract Month.

ABI Singapore assessments were launched in June 2018 and are calculated using fixed price delivered-to-ship bunker transactions between suppliers and ship owners reported to Argus by 7pm each Singapore working day. More than 40 companies have voluntarily contributed trade data, making it a robust price assessment process.

The LSFO 0.5%S index represents the price of bunker fuel delivered between 4 and 12 days from the trade date, for volumes between 500t and 3,000t, with viscosity less than 380cst and Sulphur less than 0.5%. Argus will remove price outliers using a statistical analysis prior to calculating a Volume Weighted Average (VWA), representing the average price ship owners paid for fuel of that specification that day. The full assessment methodology can be viewed on the Argus website.

Argus is an independent media organization founded in 1970, with more than 1000 staff in 23 offices. Companies in 140 countries use Argus data to index physical trade, as benchmarks in financial derivative markets and for analysis and planning purposes.

Beside the new APEX ABI LSFO Futures, APEX had listed a physically deliverable Fuel Oil 380 cst Futures Contract on 11th April 2019. So far, the daily average trading volume is around 23,000 lots (230,000 mt), and the daily average open interest is around 3,600 lots (36,000 mt).

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Published: 18 October, 2019

 

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Winding up

Singapore: Xihe Holdings subsidiaries to be wound up voluntarily, creditors to submit claims

Creditors of Da Zhong Tankers and Xin Ying Shipping are required on or before 17 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims to appointed liquidators, says notice.

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Xihe Holdings Pte Ltd subsidiaries Da Zhong Tankers Pte Ltd and Xin Ying Shipping Pte Ltd will voluntarily wind up following resolutions that were passed by written means, according to a Government Gazette notice published on Thursday (18 June).

The resolutions set out below were duly passed:

  • SPECIAL RESOLUTION – WINDING-UP

That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to section 160(1)(b) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.

  • ORDINARY RESOLUTION – APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATORS

That Paresh Tribhovan Jotangia and Ho May Kee of Grant Thornton Singapore Private Limited, 8 Marina View, #40-04/05 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960 be and are hereby appointed as joint and several liquidators to conduct the said winding-up and that their remuneration be fixed on the usual scale of their professional charges for the work involved.

  • SPECIAL RESOLUTION – POWERS OF LIQUIDATORS

That the liquidators of the Company be authorised to exercise any of their powers given by section 177, 144 (1) and (2) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 and to distribute to members, in specie, any part of the assets of the Company.

In another notice, the liquidator of the company said creditors are required on or before 17 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses with particulars of their solicitors (if any) to liquidator Paresh Tribhovan Jotangia at Grant Thornton Singapore Private Limited, 8 Marina View, #40-04/05 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960. 

The liquidator may require creditors or their solicitors to “come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice or in default thereof, they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.”

Related: Singapore: Additional Xihe Holdings subsidiaries to be placed under judicial management

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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Singapore: Liquidator of Parakou Shipping issues notice of dividend

Second and final dividend to admitted creditors of Parakou Shipping is payable by 14 July, according to Government Gazette notice.

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A notice of dividend for Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd, which is currently in voluntary liquidation, was published on the Government Gazette on Thursday (18 June). 

The following are the details of the notice:

Name of Company : Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd (In Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation)
Address of Registered Office : c/o KordaMentha, 50 Raffles Place, 25-01 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore 048623
Amount per centum : 0.55 per centum of admitted claims (in accordance with the Order of Court HC/ORC 4175/2024)
First and Final or otherwise : Second and Final Dividend to admitted creditors (in accordance with the Order of Court HC/ORC 4175/2024)
When payable : By 14 July 2026
Where payable : c/o KordaMentha Pte Ltd, 50 Raffles Place, #25-01 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore 048623

Related: Singapore: Notice of intended dividend issued for Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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MOL inks bio-LNG bunker fuel supply deals with Titan and Axpo for car carriers in Europe

Titan, part of Amsterdam-based Molgas, will continue to supply bio-LNG fuel in Northwest Europe, while Axpo will take charge of supply in the Mediterranean region.

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MOL inks bio-LNG bunker fuel supply deals with Titan and Axpo for car carriers in Europe

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) on Thursday (18 July) said it has signed new supply agreements in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean region to expand the use of bio-LNG marine fuel on MOL-operated LNG-fuelled car carriers.

Titan, part of Amsterdam-based Molgas, will continue to supply bio-LNG fuel in Northwest Europe, while Axpo will take charge of supply in the Mediterranean region.

MOL said the agreement makes it possible for its company to supply bio-LNG fuel for automobile carriers in the Mediterranean region, specifically Port of Malaga and Barcelona in Spain, following the bio-LNG fuel supply agreement in Western Europe, which commenced in March last year.

The bio-LNG fuel to be supplied in this initiative has a lifecycle carbon intensity (carbon dioxide emissions per unit of energy consumption) of -15 g-CO2/MJ or less, from production through consumption. Furthermore, this bio-LNG fuel has obtained International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC-EU). 

“Through this supply agreement, MOL has established a framework that ensures a continuous and stable supply of bio-LNG fuel not only in Northern Europe but also in the Mediterranean,” the company said.

As part of the group’s efforts to adopt alternative fuels and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is utilising LNG-fuelled vessels as a bridge solution to facilitate the transition to carbon-neutral fuels such as bio-LNG and synthetic LNG (e-methane).

In 2025, MOL signed a bio LNG fuel supply agreement in Northwest Europe with Titan, part of the Molgas, and MOL has continued this bio LNG fuel supply agreement with the same company in 2026 as well.

 

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Published: 19 June, 2026

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