Take control of your largest operating cost

The end-to-end process of buying marine fuel: planning demand from voyage schedules, requesting quotes for each delivery (stem), comparing offers, verifying delivery quality and quantity, and settling payment. It is typically a fleet's largest operating cost and increasingly runs on digital platforms rather than email.

By increasing competitive tension through structured RFQs, benchmarking supplier offers against real-time market data and optimising contract allocation across the fleet.

Yes. Contract volumes are tracked in real time and can be dynamically balanced against spot purchases depending on pricing conditions and fleet demand.

Delivered quantities, density differentials and lab results can be validated against original agreements within the system, creating a documented and defensible claims process.

ZeroNorth provides full transparency across offers, margins and contract exposure within a digital workflow, reducing dependency on opaque negotiation channels while maintaining supplier flexibility.

Automated matching of eBDN data with original orders reduces reconciliation errors, accelerates payment cycles and strengthens audit readiness.

Role-based access control, approval workflows and full transaction traceability ensure procurement decisions are auditable and aligned with governance standards.

Yes. Fuel buying decisions can reflect voyage performance, operational planning and carbon exposure, ensuring procurement aligns with both margin and decarbonisation strategy.

ZeroNorth Bunker Procurement is used by both in-house procurement teams and bunkering brokers. For brokers, it manages the full supplier workflow: outbound RFQs, offer comparison on total cost, contract volume tracking and documentation through to eBDN across multiple suppliers and ports in one system. Pricing intelligence from 200+ ports sits alongside the procurement workflow, so every offer can be benchmarked against what the market is actually trading at in real time.

Best as one connected platform rather than separate tools. ZeroNorth links procurement natively to Voyage Optimisation and Emission Analytics: consumption forecasts shape bunker plans, and every purchase carries its EU ETS and FuelEU exposure. Fuel buying, consumption optimisation and emissions tracking run on the same data, so the number you buy against is the number you report.

Daily price volatility, quantity and quality disputes at delivery, offers fragmented across email threads and brokers, and carbon compliance costs (EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime) that traditional buying processes don't surface until after the purchase.

ZeroNorth Bunker Procurement tracks bunker costs at the fleet level, aggregating spend by vessel, port, supplier and fuel grade with a live roll-up dashboard. Supplier offers are compared against transaction-backed market data from 200+ ports, and approved orders connect directly to voyage P&L, giving operators a live view of bunker cost impact on TCE across the entire fleet.

All three. ZeroNorth works as bunker procurement software for in-house buyers, as a trading platform for bunker traders managing outbound RFQs across multiple suppliers, and as a sourcing workspace for teams comparing offers from each supplier on total cost. The workflow is the same single auditable system.

Fragmented suppliers, opaque pricing and a disconnected bunker fuel supply chain are solved by bringing the whole supply chain into one platform: live pricing across 200+ ports, supplier comparison on total cost, and bunker optimisation that aligns purchasing with voyage plans and emissions exposure. In-house teams get the same market visibility in the system itself.

Yes. For bunker traders it works as a trading platform: outbound RFQs, offer comparison on total cost, contract volume tracking and documentation through to eBDN across multiple suppliers and ports. The same workflow serves in-house buyers and brokers, so buyer and trader teams operate from one system.

Both, in balance. Term contracts secure baseline volume and price predictability; spot purchases capture market dips and cover schedule changes. The right mix shifts with market conditions, which is why real-time visibility of contract liftings against spot prices matters.

Modern bunker procurement platforms typically offer real-time price benchmarking, structured RFQs and supplier comparison on total cost, delivery verification via eBDN, emissions cost (EU ETS and FuelEU) priced into each stem, and integration with voyage and vessel systems. ZeroNorth Bunker Procurement covers all five in one auditable workflow, used across global fleets.