On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened since the pandemic.
Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.
Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.
They run on this lovely environmental disaster of a fuel:
Heavy fuel oil is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum. For this reason, HFO contains several different compounds that include aromatics, sulfur, and nitrogen, making emissions upon combustion more polluting compared to other fuel oils.
Bunker fuel is an umbrella term for any fuel used in ships, including diesel. The term describes how the fuel is stored on board, not what it is made of.
Bunker fuel is a derivative of petrol, and more polluting than diesel, so your question very much still stands.
Alternatively, the container ship in the article is by CMA CGM, who are increasing their use of LNG (Liquified Natural Gas). This fuel is being used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.
As so, the name doesn’t refer to the type of fuel the watercraft uses, so the fuel type can be a variety of different fuels depending on the vessel itself.
I wonder how much diesel those things (plus the trucks that pick up the containers) use - and if this will decrease oil prices?
Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.
Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.
They run on this lovely environmental disaster of a fuel:
Heavy fuel oil is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum. For this reason, HFO contains several different compounds that include aromatics, sulfur, and nitrogen, making emissions upon combustion more polluting compared to other fuel oils.
Cargo ships don’t really use diesel, they run on bunker fuel.
Bunker fuel is an umbrella term for any fuel used in ships, including diesel. The term describes how the fuel is stored on board, not what it is made of.
Huh, never knew that. Thanks for sharing
Bunker fuel is a derivative of petrol, and more polluting than diesel, so your question very much still stands.
Alternatively, the container ship in the article is by CMA CGM, who are increasing their use of LNG (Liquified Natural Gas). This fuel is being used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.
That person is wrong. Diesel is a type of bunker fuel. Any fuel used on ships is bunker fuel. Including diesel, coal and everything else.
Do you have a source for this? Anywhere I look says that bunker fuel refers to heavy fuel oil which is very much not diesel.
Another one directly from the bunker fuel supplier https://www.crownoil.co.uk/guides/bunker-fuel-guide/
https://www.brookesbell.com/news-and-knowledge/article/what-is-bunker-fuel-a-complete-guide-158816/
The article then goes into more detail, including diesel discussion.