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Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price Today — FOB Rotterdam
- CommodityScope Indicative Assessment
- CS Series CS-RTM-FO35 + 1 related series on this page
- daily cadence · FOB Rotterdam · USD/mt
- Oil Products & Physical Crude Methodology v1.0
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The assessment represents the estimated prevailing market level for the defined basis and is not an executable quotation.
Latest Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price
The assessment range is an uncertainty interval around the CommodityScope midpoint and does not represent a quoted bid/offer spread or daily trading high/low. Range methodology
- Basis
- FOB Rotterdam
- Unit
- USD/mt
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS Series
- CS-RTM-FO35
Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Price Chart
USD/mt · Calendar gaps are not interpolated.
Price Changes and Historical Range
Computed statistics are CommodityScope calculations from the series history.
Monthly Rotterdam Fuel Oil 3.5% Prices
Average, minimum and maximum of assessment midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessment range. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.
| Month | Average mid | Min mid | Max mid | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026Month to date | 595.77 | 554.00 | 623.25 | 15 |
| September 2026 | 553.77 | 518.00 | 599.50 | 22 |
| 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
Latest CommodityScope daily assessments for the defined market basis. Low and high are the CommodityScope assessment range around each midpoint, not a bid/offer spread. Dates without an available assessment are omitted.
| Date | Low | High | Mid | Δ vs previous |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | 621.00 | 625.50 | 623.25 | +15.25 |
| 2026-10-20 | 605.75 | 610.25 | 608.00 | -10.50 |
| 2026-10-19 | 616.25 | 620.75 | 618.50 | +6.50 |
| 2026-10-16 | 608.50 | 614.25 | 612.00 | +0.75 |
| 2026-10-15 | 605.75 | 615.00 | 611.25 | -3.00 |
| 2026-10-14 | 607.25 | 616.75 | 614.25 | +5.00 |
| 2026-10-13 | 602.25 | 611.75 | 609.25 | -1.25 |
| 2026-10-12 | 603.25 | 613.25 | 610.50 | +5.75 |
| 2026-10-09 | 602.00 | 608.25 | 604.75 | -2.75 |
| 2026-10-08 | 604.50 | 610.50 | 607.50 | +25.00 |
| 2026-10-07 | 579.75 | 585.25 | 582.50 | +27.25 |
| 2026-10-06 | 548.75 | 557.75 | 555.25 | -10.00 |
| 2026-10-05 | 562.75 | 567.75 | 565.25 | +11.25 |
| 2026-10-02 | 551.50 | 556.50 | 554.00 | -6.25 |
| 2026-10-01 | 557.75 | 562.75 | 560.25 | -6.25 |
| 2026-09-30 | 562.50 | 569.25 | 566.50 | +10.50 |
| 2026-09-29 | 553.25 | 558.75 | 556.00 | -24.75 |
| 2026-09-28 | 578.00 | 587.25 | 580.75 | -5.25 |
| 2026-09-25 | 583.25 | 588.75 | 586.00 | -13.50 |
| 2026-09-24 | 596.75 | 602.25 | 599.50 | +32.50 |
| 2026-09-23 | 564.50 | 569.50 | 567.00 | +27.00 |
| 2026-09-22 | 534.75 | 542.25 | 540.00 | +3.75 |
| 2026-09-21 | 530.75 | 538.50 | 536.25 | -21.00 |
| 2026-09-18 | 553.00 | 559.50 | 557.25 | +6.25 |
| 2026-09-17 | 545.50 | 555.00 | 551.00 | -3.25 |
| 2026-09-16 | 549.75 | 556.75 | 554.25 | -19.75 |
| 2026-09-15 | 568.50 | 576.50 | 574.00 | +4.50 |
| 2026-09-14 | 567.00 | 572.00 | 569.50 | +8.50 |
| 2026-09-11 | 558.50 | 568.00 | 561.00 | -5.75 |
| 2026-09-10 | 564.00 | 569.50 | 566.75 | — |
Market system
Fuel oil East–West differential
Rotterdam marine fuel differential
What This FOB Rotterdam Price Represents
Daily FOB Rotterdam barge assessment of 3.5% sulphur fuel oil in USD/mt.
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.
Different products; values are shown side by side and are not subtracted.
| 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. | 681.75 21 Oct 2026 | not directly comparable |
| 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. | 613.25 21 Oct 2026 | +10.00 |
| HSFO 380 Singapore vs Rotterdam 3.5% East-West spread · USD/mt · daily | East–West spread using this market as its Rotterdam leg. | 105.00 21 Oct 2026 | not directly comparable |
Related Market Prices
Series on This Page
Fuel oil 3.5% FOB Rotterdam: the spot assessment and the forward curve reference the same underlying market basis and are shown on one page. The first row is the featured series: it supplies the headline value, chart and statistics above. Each series keeps its own CS Series identifier and history.
| Series | CS Series | Cadence | Latest | Change | Assessment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spot assessmentFeatured FOB Rotterdam | CS-RTM-FO35 | daily | 623.25 USD/mt | +15.25 vs previous daily assessment (20 Oct 2026) | 21 Oct 2026 |
| Forward curve FOB Rotterdam | CS-FWD-RTM-FO35 | daily · M1 tenor | 609.00 USD/mt | +7.75 vs previous daily assessment (20 Oct 2026) | 21 Oct 2026 |
Forward curve — 21 October 2026
Forward values on the same underlying basis (FOB Rotterdam; CS Series CS-FWD-RTM-FO35), in USD/mt. All tenors published on the latest assessment date are shown; the highlighted M1 tenor is listed below with its recent history. The curve is a separate series and is not mixed into the spot history above.
| Tenor | Contract | Bid | Offer | Mid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Nov26 | — | — | 609.00 |
| M2 | Dec26 | — | — | 586.25 |
The highlighted M1 row is the tenor listed in the recent-history table. Other tenors are shown for this date only.
| Date | M1 bid | M1 offer | M1 mid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | — | — | 609.00 |
| 2026-10-20 | — | — | 601.25 |
| 2026-10-19 | — | — | 609.75 |
| 2026-10-16 | — | — | 609.25 |
| 2026-10-15 | — | — | 606.75 |
| 2026-10-14 | — | — | 608.50 |
| 2026-10-13 | — | — | 603.50 |
| 2026-10-12 | — | — | 604.50 |
Latest 8 of 142 M1 observations. A dash means no bid or offer was published for that date.
CommodityScope Assessment Basis
This is the CommodityScope series definition for the published midpoint and assessment range. Characteristics that are not part of this basis are not inferred.
- Product
- Fuel Oil 3.5%
- Product quality
- Product as labelled by the series name and location basis. CommodityScope does not infer a fuller chemical or contractual specification.
- Location basis
- FOB Rotterdam
- Parcel basis
- Typical physical cargo as transacted on the stated location basis. CommodityScope does not fix a standard parcel tonnage.
- Delivery / loading period
- Not fixed in the published series basis.
- Assessment window
- CommodityScope daily assessment dated as of the published assessment date.
- Currency / unit
- USD/mt
- Normalization
- Inputs used for the midpoint and the assessment range are considered only after they can be expressed on this series basis and unit. Cross-unit values are not converted on the public site and are not mixed into this series.
Specification · stated in the assessment basis
- Maximum 3.5% sulphur, from the series name.
Basis: FOB Rotterdam
- FOB Rotterdam: the published delivery-basis table lists fuel oil 3.5% 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.
- CommodityScope publishes a midpoint and an assessment range around that midpoint; the range is an uncertainty interval, not a bid/offer spread. Charts and monthly statistics use the midpoint only.
How to use this series, and what it is not for
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).
Product and market references
- CommodityScope series definition — European delivery basis — FOB Rotterdam, FOB Rotterdam-Antwerp, FOB ARA and Rotterdam delivered bunkers as defined for the listed European series.
- 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 Market Assessment Methodology
Assessment, assessment range and computed statistics: CommodityScope. The assessment range is an uncertainty interval around the midpoint, not a bid/offer spread. See the Oil Products & Physical Crude Methodology v1.0 for assessment basis, calculation principles and data policy.