Kasper Sørensen, Head of Marine Fuels Sourcing, East at Seascale Energy, joined the panel “Addressing the transition into digital bunker in APAC” at the APPEC 2026 Shipping & Bunker conference.

Other panellists included Caroline Yang (Hong Lam Marine), Richard Ho (Ocean Network Express) and Daryl Lim (Metcore International), with Saunak Rai of the Singapore Shipping Association’s Marine Fuels Committee moderating.

With Singapore now the first port to implement electronic Bunker Delivery Notes on top of mandated Mass Flow Meters, and Rotterdam and Houston moving in the same direction, the panel examined whether digitalization is genuinely changing how the supply chain works, or moving paper onto a screen.

The discussion covered transparency and traceability through e-BDN and MFM, consolidation strategies across procurement and partnerships, the cost and licensing questions raised by multi-fuel technology, and how digital shipping corridors and AI scheduling could reshape bunker workflows.

During the panel, Kasper spoke to where the opportunity for consolidation sits across the value chain, how procurement strategies hold up when the market shifts from a standardized bunker product to multiple fuels with very different supply chains, and what information matters when supply is disrupted.

APPEC, the Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference hosted by S&P Global in Singapore, is one of the region’s main annual meeting points for the oil and shipping industries. The Shipping & Bunker program runs alongside it and focuses on marine fuels, freight and the operational realities of the energy transition.