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Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price — FOB Rotterdam
The latest FOB Rotterdam fuel oil 3.5% assessment is $528.00 per metric ton for 4 September 2026, down $9.50 from the previous daily assessment (3 Sep 2026). Explore the historical price chart and recent daily assessments below.
Latest Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price
- Basis
- FOB Rotterdam
- Unit
- USD/mt
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS code
- CS-RTM-FO35
What This Indicator Measures
Daily FOB Rotterdam barge assessment of 3.5% sulphur fuel oil in USD/mt.
High Sulphur Fuel Oil (380 / 180 CST, 3.5%): A physical price for residual fuel oil with up to 3.5% sulphur. Asian and Gulf series are named by viscosity grade (380 or 180 cSt at 50 °C); European series are named by sulphur content (3.5%), with barge, cargo and delivered-bunker variants kept separate.
Specification · stated by the source for this series
- Maximum 3.5% sulphur, from the series name.
- 380 and 180 are maximum kinematic viscosity in cSt at 50 °C per ISO 8217 residual grades.
- 3.5% is the maximum sulphur content by mass.
Basis: FOB Rotterdam
- FOB Rotterdam: the source delivery-basis table lists fuel oil 3.5% (PUABC00) as FOB Rotterdam.
- FOB (free on board): the price covers the product loaded on the vessel at the named origin; sea freight and insurance to the destination are excluded, so FOB values from different loading areas are not delivered-cost equivalents.
- ARA is the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp port and refining complex on the North Sea, linked by the Rhine to inland Europe; barge values here are inland-waterway parcels.
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.
Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price Chart
Available history 26 Jan 2026 through 4 Sep 2026 (109 observations). Monthly averages below use the midpoint of each published assessment.
Fuel Oil 3.5% — Rotterdam
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 $528.00/mt on 4 Sep 2026 is down $9.50 (-1.8%) 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 6.8% above the August 2026 average of $494.36/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 $680.00/mt on 18 May 2026 and the lowest was $345.25/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 Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% 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 | 528.38 | 518.00 | 537.50 | 4 |
| August 2026 | 494.36 | 443.75 | 555.25 | 19 |
| July 2026 | 456.14 | 397.50 | 520.00 | 14 |
| June 2026 | 493.60 | 398.75 | 581.00 | 13 |
| May 2026 | 628.32 | 552.00 | 680.00 | 17 |
| April 2026 | 595.23 | 555.25 | 649.75 | 13 |
| March 2026 | 609.14 | 511.25 | 666.75 | 16 |
| February 2026 | 370.80 | 351.75 | 400.25 | 11 |
| January 2026 | 360.75 | 345.25 | 376.25 | 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 | 527.75 | 528.25 | 528.00 | -9.50 |
| 2026-09-03 | 537.25 | 537.75 | 537.50 | +7.50 |
| 2026-09-02 | 529.75 | 530.25 | 530.00 | +12.00 |
| 2026-09-01 | 517.75 | 518.25 | 518.00 | +22.25 |
| 2026-08-28 | 495.50 | 496.00 | 495.75 | +8.25 |
| 2026-08-27 | 487.25 | 487.75 | 487.50 | -5.75 |
| 2026-08-26 | 493.00 | 493.50 | 493.25 | +3.75 |
| 2026-08-25 | 489.25 | 489.75 | 489.50 | -17.75 |
| 2026-08-24 | 507.00 | 507.50 | 507.25 | -6.25 |
| 2026-08-21 | 513.25 | 513.75 | 513.50 | -4.50 |
| 2026-08-20 | 517.75 | 518.25 | 518.00 | -23.75 |
| 2026-08-19 | 541.50 | 542.00 | 541.75 | -13.50 |
| 2026-08-18 | 555.00 | 555.50 | 555.25 | +39.50 |
| 2026-08-17 | 515.50 | 516.00 | 515.75 | +15.50 |
| 2026-08-14 | 500.00 | 500.50 | 500.25 | +5.00 |
| 2026-08-13 | 495.00 | 495.50 | 495.25 | +3.75 |
| 2026-08-12 | 491.25 | 491.75 | 491.50 | +5.25 |
| 2026-08-11 | 486.00 | 486.50 | 486.25 | +5.50 |
| 2026-08-10 | 480.50 | 481.00 | 480.75 | +14.50 |
| 2026-08-06 | 457.00 | 457.50 | 457.25 | +13.50 |
| 2026-08-05 | 443.50 | 444.00 | 443.75 | -9.50 |
| 2026-08-04 | 453.00 | 453.50 | 453.25 | -13.75 |
| 2026-08-03 | 466.75 | 467.25 | 467.00 | -21.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | 487.75 | 488.25 | 488.00 | +3.25 |
| 2026-07-30 | 484.50 | 485.00 | 484.75 | -9.75 |
| 2026-07-28 | 468.75 | 469.25 | 469.00 | -24.75 |
| 2026-07-24 | 519.75 | 520.25 | 520.00 | -19.50 |
| 2026-07-20 | 497.75 | 498.25 | 498.00 | +7.25 |
| 2026-07-17 | 490.50 | 491.00 | 490.75 | +9.50 |
| 2026-07-16 | 481.00 | 481.50 | 481.25 | +6.50 |
What This FOB Rotterdam Price Represents
This page tracks the daily fuel oil 3.5% on a FOB Rotterdam 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 HSFO values used by scrubber-fitted vessels and power/refinery feedstock buyers; the East–West spread compares Singapore with Rotterdam.
What it is not suitable for
- Compliant bunker pricing for non-scrubber ships (that is the 0.5% series).
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% — Rotterdam FOB Rotterdam-Antwerp · USD/mt · daily | Different grade or specification in the same market: 0.5% marine fuel vs 3.5% fuel oil barges. | 614.50 4 Sep 2026 | -86.50 |
| Fuel Oil 3.5% 500 CST — Rotterdam FOB Rotterdam · USD/mt · daily | Different grade or specification in the same market: 500 cSt vs standard-viscosity 3.5% fuel oil. | 520.00 4 Sep 2026 | +8.00 |
| Fuel Oil 3.5% Rotterdam Forward FOB Rotterdam · USD/mt · daily | Swap curve referencing this Rotterdam 3.5% fuel oil market; compare the M1 tenor with the physical value, not later tenors. | 521.75 4 Sep 2026 | +6.25 |
| HSFO 380 Singapore vs Rotterdam 3.5% East-West spread · USD/mt · daily | East–West spread using this market as its Rotterdam leg. | 32.50 4 Sep 2026 | +495.50 |
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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-RTM-FO35.
CS Indicator policy and derived-data rules.
Sources for the explanations on this page
- European edition of 1 Sep 2026 — “Delivery basis” table — PUAAP00 / PUABC00 / PUAGN00 = FOB Rotterdam; PUMFD00 = FOB Rotterdam-Antwerp; PJABA00 = FOB Flushing-Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp-Ghent; LGARD00 / AAJUS00 = FOB Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp; PUAYW00 = Rotterdam delivered bunkers.
- 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.