Margins remain tight for marine fuels resellers amid lengthy shipping market doldrums and the collapse of OW Bunker, but "green shoots" of a maritime recovery and the prospect of tighter emissions rules are providing reasons for hope.

Even if bunker prices have staged some modest recovery, companies that deliver bunkers on back-to-back trades are continuing to see low spreads.

World Fuel Services bunker segment snapshot

Q1 2017 Q1 2016
Volume6.8