Test that blended fuel before you sail
‘Sludge formation in bunker fuel is the source of major operational problems for the shipowner,’ according to Sunil Kumar, laboratory manager of Veritas Petroleum Services in Fujairah
Shipowners have only one recourse when it comes to gaining certainty over the supplies of blended fuels they are buying for their vessels: a test of the fuels long before they are ever loaded into a ship’s tanks