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Ship & Bunker global marine fuel price index

daily VLSFO/IFO380 bunker fuel price by major port

Feed detail
Measures
daily VLSFO/IFO380 bunker fuel price by major port
Source
shipandbunker.com daily price tables
Access
http
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Marine fuel is the single largest variable cost in ocean freight; bunker price moves lead container/bulk spot-rate changes by 2-4 weeks, ahead of import-cost inflation
Maps to
freight/shipping cost inflation, energy
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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