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MPA suspends Glencore for two months following fuel contamination

Glencore knowingly supplied 24 vessels in Singapore with contaminated bunker fuel, an MPA investigation has found. The company’s bunkering license has been suspended for two months.
Photo: Bernd Von Jutrczenka/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Bernd Von Jutrczenka/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by KIM WIESENER

Glencore, one of the world’s largest commodity and mining companies, knew that the bunker fuel it was supplying to 24 vessels in the Port of Singapore earlier this year was contaminated.

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