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Mediterranean CIF Marine Fuel 0.5% Price — CIF Med
The latest CIF Med marine fuel 0.5% assessment is $656.25 per metric ton for 4 September 2026, down $3.50 from the previous daily assessment (3 Sep 2026). Explore the historical price chart and recent daily assessments below.
Latest Mediterranean CIF Marine Fuel 0.5% Price
- Basis
- CIF Med
- Unit
- USD/mt
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS code
- CS-MED-VLSFO-CIF
What This Indicator Measures
Daily CIF Mediterranean cargo assessment of 0.5% sulphur marine fuel in USD/mt.
Marine Fuel 0.5% (VLSFO): A physical price for very-low-sulphur fuel oil with a maximum 0.50% sulphur content, the global-compliant marine fuel under IMO MARPOL Annex VI since 1 January 2020. Series are quoted FOB cargo or barge at the named hub, not as delivered bunker stems.
Specification · stated by the source for this series
- Maximum 0.5% sulphur, from the series name.
- 0.50% sulphur maximum by mass (IMO 2020 global cap).
- Grade is a residual marine fuel within ISO 8217; viscosity and other limits follow the source assessment.
Basis: CIF Med
- CIF (cost, insurance and freight): the price includes ocean freight and insurance to the named destination area; the difference to an FOB value therefore contains freight and insurance, not a trading margin.
- The Mediterranean basis covers cargo loadings (FOB Med, typically Italian ports) or deliveries (CIF Med) within the Mediterranean basin.
Unit: USD/mt
- USD/bbl values (Singapore, Arab Gulf, Fujairah) and USD/mt values (Europe, Japan naphtha) cannot be compared without a product-specific density conversion; the site does not convert them.
- Published assessments are a low–high range with a midpoint; charts and monthly statistics use the midpoint only.
Mediterranean CIF Marine Fuel 0.5% Price Chart
Available history 26 Jan 2026 through 4 Sep 2026 (109 observations). Monthly averages below use the midpoint of each published assessment.
Marine Fuel 0.5% — Mediterranean CIF
Computed Summary
Statements below are calculated by CommodityScope from the loaded history only. Each one names its period and method; none explains why a value moved.
The latest assessment of $656.25/mt on 4 Sep 2026 is down $3.50 (-0.5%) from the previous daily assessment (3 Sep 2026).
Method: Computed by CommodityScope as the difference between the two most recent loaded daily observations (1 calendar day apart).
It is 2.9% above the August 2026 average of $637.70/mt, the most recent completed month with 19 daily observations.
Method: Arithmetic mean of the published daily midpoints in August 2026. Partial months are excluded from this comparison.
Over the loaded history (26 Jan 2026 – 4 Sep 2026), the highest assessment was $760.25/mt on 5 May 2026 and the lowest was $411.50/mt on 26 Jan 2026.
Method: Minimum and maximum of the published midpoint over the loaded history (26 Jan 2026 – 4 Sep 2026, 109 observations). This is not an all-time record.
Price Changes and Historical Range
Published changes are copied from the source edition. Computed changes are CommodityScope calculations between loaded daily observations; the two are shown separately and may differ when an intermediate edition is not loaded.
Monthly Mediterranean CIF Marine Fuel 0.5% Prices
Average, minimum and maximum of published midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessed low–high bands. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.
| Month | Average mid | Min mid | Max mid | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Month to date | 663.88 | 656.25 | 670.25 | 4 |
| August 2026 | 637.70 | 603.25 | 663.25 | 19 |
| July 2026 | 607.11 | 545.00 | 665.75 | 14 |
| June 2026 | 611.06 | 551.25 | 673.25 | 13 |
| May 2026 | 695.29 | 647.00 | 760.25 | 17 |
| April 2026 | 663.58 | 622.25 | 725.75 | 13 |
| March 2026 | 652.33 | 550.00 | 728.75 | 16 |
| February 2026 | 435.98 | 414.75 | 462.50 | 11 |
| January 2026 | 425.25 | 411.50 | 439.00 | 2 |
Recent Daily Assessments
Last 30 published assessments. The chart above is interactive; this table is the HTML history.
| Date | Low | High | Mid | Δ day (published) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | 656.25 | 656.25 | 656.25 | -3.50 |
| 2026-09-03 | 659.75 | 659.75 | 659.75 | -10.50 |
| 2026-09-02 | 670.25 | 670.25 | 670.25 | +1.00 |
| 2026-09-01 | 669.25 | 669.25 | 669.25 | +26.00 |
| 2026-08-28 | 643.25 | 643.25 | 643.25 | +7.00 |
| 2026-08-27 | 636.25 | 636.25 | 636.25 | -0.75 |
| 2026-08-26 | 637.00 | 637.00 | 637.00 | -0.50 |
| 2026-08-25 | 637.50 | 637.50 | 637.50 | -14.00 |
| 2026-08-24 | 651.50 | 651.50 | 651.50 | -11.75 |
| 2026-08-21 | 663.25 | 663.25 | 663.25 | +8.25 |
| 2026-08-20 | 655.00 | 655.00 | 655.00 | +3.00 |
| 2026-08-19 | 652.00 | 652.00 | 652.00 | +1.00 |
| 2026-08-18 | 651.00 | 651.00 | 651.00 | +14.50 |
| 2026-08-17 | 636.50 | 636.50 | 636.50 | -0.25 |
| 2026-08-14 | 636.75 | 636.75 | 636.75 | -8.00 |
| 2026-08-13 | 644.75 | 644.75 | 644.75 | +1.75 |
| 2026-08-12 | 643.00 | 643.00 | 643.00 | +1.25 |
| 2026-08-11 | 641.75 | 641.75 | 641.75 | +3.50 |
| 2026-08-10 | 638.25 | 638.25 | 638.25 | +17.25 |
| 2026-08-06 | 607.00 | 607.00 | 607.00 | +3.75 |
| 2026-08-05 | 603.25 | 603.25 | 603.25 | -6.75 |
| 2026-08-04 | 610.00 | 610.00 | 610.00 | -18.25 |
| 2026-08-03 | 628.25 | 628.25 | 628.25 | -30.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 658.25 | 658.25 | 658.25 | +7.25 |
| 2026-07-30 | 651.00 | 651.00 | 651.00 | -7.75 |
| 2026-07-28 | 619.75 | 619.75 | 619.75 | -18.00 |
| 2026-07-24 | 665.75 | 665.75 | 665.75 | -27.75 |
| 2026-07-20 | 638.00 | 638.00 | 638.00 | +3.75 |
| 2026-07-17 | 634.25 | 634.25 | 634.25 | +7.50 |
| 2026-07-16 | 626.75 | 626.75 | 626.75 | -2.25 |
What This CIF Med Price Represents
This page tracks the daily marine fuel 0.5% on a CIF Med basis, quoted in USD/mt. Figures are CommodityScope Indicators synthesized from loaded market editions. They are not a live quote and not a republication of a price-reporting agency table.
How to use this series
- Follow compliant bunker fuel values at the main hubs; compare with HSFO 3.5% in the same hub to read the scrubber economics spread (Hi-5).
What it is not suitable for
- Delivered bunker stem prices, which include barging and margins.
- ECA-compliant 0.10% fuel pricing (that is marine gasoil).
Compare With
Each comparison states why the series are related and whether the latest values can be subtracted directly (same unit, currency and assessment date). Where they cannot, the values are shown side by side without a difference.
| Series | Why compare | Latest | Difference (this − other) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine Fuel 0.5% — Mediterranean FOB Med · USD/mt · daily | Same 0.5% marine fuel in the same region on FOB Med instead of CIF Med terms; the gap contains freight/insurance or barge-vs-cargo logistics, not quality.
| 632.25 4 Sep 2026 | +24.00 |
| Fuel Oil 3.5% — Mediterranean CIF CIF Med · USD/mt · daily | Different grade or specification in the same market: 3.5% fuel oil vs 0.5% marine fuel on the same CIF basis. | 552.75 4 Sep 2026 | +103.50 |
Related Marine Fuel 0.5% Prices
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- mediterranean marine fuel 0.5% pricesFOB Med
- rotterdam marine fuel 0.5% pricesFOB Rotterdam-Antwerp
- Marine Fuel 0.5% vs 3.5% Spread — Rotterdam spreadFOB Rotterdam
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Sources and Methodology
CommodityScope publishes this page as a derived indicator from loaded physical-market editions. It does not republish a price-reporting agency table and does not claim authorship of the underlying source assessments. Update cadence follows the daily series. Internal series code CS-MED-VLSFO-CIF.
CS Indicator policy and derived-data rules.
Sources for the explanations on this page
- IMO — MARPOL Annex VI 0.50% global sulphur limit for marine fuel from 1 January 2020 (0.10% in ECAs)
- ISO 8217 — Petroleum products: fuels (class F), specifications of marine fuels (viscosity grades such as RMG 380) — Defines residual and distillate marine fuel grades; 380 and 180 refer to maximum kinematic viscosity in cSt at 50 °C.
- ICC Incoterms® 2020 rules (FOB, CFR, CIF, FCA definitions) — Meaning of the delivery terms used in the basis column.
- CommodityScope methodology — derived-indicator rules and computed statistics
Origin of the numbers: loaded market editions (see Basis and Unit above). Origin of the computed statistics: CommodityScope, from the loaded history, using the rules on the methodology page.