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The price of 380 centistoke (cSt) intermediate fuel oil (IFO) at the port of Rotterdam was at its lowest end-of-week level of the year so far on Friday, according to Bunker Index price data.

The Rotterdam 380 cSt bunker price was down by $24.00, or 9.8 percent, to $221.00 per tonne on August 21 compared with $245.00 per tonne on August 14. It is the seventh consecutive end-of-week decrease and the tenth in a row without an increase.

The $24.00 decline is also the most significant since January 9, when the end-of-week Rotterdam 380 cSt price was $28.50 lower than the previous week.

Please find a summary of end-of-week Rotterdam's 380 cSt prices below (in US$ per tonne) since the start of the year.

Rotterdam 380 cSt summary:

Date	Week	Price ($)	$ (+/-)	% (+/-)
21/08/2015	Week 34	221.00	-24.00	-9.8
14/08/2015	Week 33	245.00	-11.00	-4.3
07/08/2015	Week 32	256.00	-11.00	-4.1
31/07/2015	Week 31	267.00	-13.00	-4.6
24/07/2015	Week 30	280.00	-13.00	-4.4
17/07/2015	Week 29	293.00	-12.50	-4.1
10/07/2015	Week 28	305.50	-15.50	-4.8
03/07/2015	Week 27	321.00	0.00	0.0
26/06/2015	Week 26	321.00	-10.00	-3.0
19/06/2015	Week 25	331.00	-0.50	-0.2
12/06/2015	Week 24	331.50	11.00	3.4
05/06/2015	Week 23	320.50	-2.50	-0.8
29/05/2015	Week 22	323.00	-16.00	-4.7
22/05/2015	Week 21	339.00	-12.00	-3.4
15/05/2015	Week 20	351.00	1.00	0.3
08/05/2015	Week 19	350.00	1.00	0.3
01/05/2015	Week 18	349.00	13.00	3.9
24/04/2015	Week 17	336.00	11.50	3.5
17/04/2015	Week 16	324.50	28.50	9.6
10/04/2015	Week 15	296.00	-1.00	-0.3
03/04/2015	Week 14	297.00	-9.00	-2.9
27/03/2015	Week 13	306.00	24.50	8.7
20/03/2015	Week 12	281.50	-14.50	-4.9
13/03/2015	Week 11	296.00	-16.50	-5.3
06/03/2015	Week 10	312.50	-5.50	-1.7
27/02/2015	Week 9	318.00	6.00	1.9
20/02/2015	Week 8	312.00	-3.00	-1.0
13/02/2015	Week 7	315.00	14.00	4.7
06/02/2015	Week 6	301.00	54.50	22.1
30/01/2015	Week 5	246.50	3.50	1.4
23/01/2015	Week 4	243.00	0.50	0.2
16/01/2015	Week 3	242.50	-4.00	-1.6
09/01/2015	Week 2	246.50	-28.50	-10.4
02/01/2015	Week 1	275.00	--	--