Post by AV Carbon

June 30 is not a soft deadline. By then, every ship under FuelEU Maritime scope needs its 2025 Document of Compliance settled, and any compliance deficit needs to be covered, either through banking, pooling, or paying the penalty. The date is well known. The actual number behind it, less so. The FuelEU penalty isn't flat. It scales with how far below the GHG intensity  target a vessel falls, and it compounds: miss it two years running and the penalty multiplier increases. On a mid-size product tanker running mostly VLSFO, a modest miss on the intensity target can already land in the €30,000 to €50,000 range for a single vessel, for a single year. Here's the part that catches people off guard: the vessel with the bigger fuel bill isn't always the one with the bigger FuelEU problem. A ship burning more fuel but running a cleaner blend can sit comfortably inside the target, while a smaller, more efficient-looking vessel on straight VLSFO can be the one carrying the deficit. Fuel efficiency and FuelEU compliance are not the same question. The fix isn't always what gets assumed either. Sometimes it's a small blend adjustment. Sometimes it's a pooling arrangement with a vessel running a surplus. Sometimes the cheapest fix needed to happen in January, not in June. Fuel mix, voyage scope, what's already been banked: these are what actually determine the size of the problem, not the deadline itself. Two ships, same trade lane, same year. One clears the target with room to spare. The other owes five figures. Same regulation, same deadline, very different outcome. #FuelEUMaritime #ShippingDecarbonization #MaritimeCompliance #AVCarbon