Over 50% of TFG Marine’s bunker barges equipped with mass flow meters

The global bunker supplier plans to complete the installation of mass flow meters (MFM) across its bunker barge fleet “over the next two years at most,” TFG Marine’s spokesperson told ENGINE.

PHOTO: TFG Marine’s bunker barge equipped with MFM. TFG Marine

In 2021, TFG Marine announced plans to install MFM across its global bunker barge fleet to ensure transparency about marine fuel deliveries.

Mass flow meters are specialised devices installed on barges to ensure precise and transparent measurements during fuel transfer processes in bunkering. It ensures accurate bunker fuel measurements, reducing errors and disputes between suppliers and bunker buyers.

Recently, the bunker supplier published a white paper that calls for the global adoption of calibrated MFMs.

The paper argues that the widespread adoption of calibrated MFMs can provide accurate and real-time data for bunker fuel delivery, eliminating quantity disputes, enhancing quality control, and facilitating data sharing and reporting.

It advocates the emulation of the Singapore model of MFM-based bunker licensing system by other ports and regions, to promote transparency in the bunker industry.

Last year, TFG Marine expressed support for the mandatory use of MFMs in the Ports of Antwerp-Bruges and Rotterdam from 2026, and called it a “step in the right direction.”

In the same year, the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) advocated the use of MFMs in more ports globally as one of the ways to mitigate supplier-buyer disputes.

By Tuhin Roy

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