SAL Heavy Lift Taps Inatech to Navigate IMO 2020
German fleet operator SAL Heavy Lift has hired Inatech, a
unit of Glencore, to ensure compliance with new low-sulphur emissions rules and
optimize bunker strategies.
Inatech has seen increased onboarding of its ‘Smart Trader’
app, which enables companies to map entire fleets of ships and visualize and
plan for best port to bunker given sea and port conditions to achieve lowest
prices for the desired quality of fuel. SAL Heavy Lift will apply Smart Trader
across parent group Harren & Partner’s fleet of ships.
Anticipating a spike in fuel price volatility and supply
dislocation from the International Maritime Organization’s new rules, Inatech
designed Smart Trader to enable companies to track their vessels on an
integrated system that displays fuel levels on board, news alerts and live
pricing data from S&P Global Platts. The tool syncs with Inatech’s Shiptech
platform, which enables emission control area compliance and can calculate a
fuel’s energy content, or calorific value, an increasingly vital metric for
purchasing decisions since the arrival of new low-sulphur fuels.
“Smart Trader and Shiptech are now a crucial part of our
operational infrastructure, ensuring that we are fully compliant and have
complete visibility on all aspects of our fleets and bunker buying,” said Danny
Stutzbecher, Head of Bunkers at SAL Heavy Lift in Hamburg. “This has been an
important part of our preparation for 2020.”
Smart Trader data covers refined wholesale and retail marine
fuels at more than 350 ports worldwide, along with regional indices, spreads,
and moving averages. Potential suppliers are checked for quality and credit
references to control counterparty risk.
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