Ship Fuel Consumption, Voyage Cost & Bunker Requirement Calculator | ShipUniverse
Sea Time • Speed-Power • Weather Margin • ECA Fuel • Port Consumption • ROB • Reserve • Bunker Uplift • Tank Capacity • Voyage Cost

Ship Fuel Consumption, Voyage Cost & Bunker Requirement Tool

Estimate sea and port fuel consumption, split primary and ECA/secondary fuels, calculate voyage time and cash cost, convert required bunker uplift between tonnes and cubic metres, check tank capacity and arrival ROB, and test the speed-versus-fuel-cost tradeoff before fixing the bunker plan.

Fuel reserve, arrival ROB and tank-fill limits are owner/company inputs. No universal IMO voyage reserve is assumed.

Vessel & Consumption Basis

Cube-law mode scales main-engine burn with (speed / reference speed)³.
knots.
tonnes/day.
tonnes/day.
tonnes/day, unless advanced port rows override.

Fuel Grades, Prices & Tank Capacity

USD/tonne.
USD/tonne.
tonnes/m³ at planning reference temperature.
tonnes/m³.
m³ total usable bunker tank volume entered.
m³.
% of entered tank capacity.
Display only. No FX conversion is performed.

Voyage Route

nautical miles.
nm. Remaining distance uses primary fuel.
knots.
knots.
% added to calculated sea time for routing/weather/current.
% applied to voyage consumption before reserve ROB.
days total.

Advanced Sea-Leg Register

Each leg can use its own distance, speed, time margin, main-engine and auxiliary consumption. Main-engine burn can be scaled from each row's reference speed or treated as a direct t/day input.

LegDistance nmSpeed knRef speedME t/dayAux t/dayTime margin %Fuel

Advanced Port / Idle Register

Port / idle periodDaysBurn t/dayFuel

ROB, Reserve & Bunker Uplift

The tool calculates the departure quantity needed to cover voyage consumption plus the greater of entered reserve-days burn or minimum arrival ROB, plus unpumpable / unusable fuel.

tonnes.
tonnes.
days. Converted to fuel using average sea burn by fuel.
tonnes.
tonnes.
tonnes.
tonnes.
tonnes. 0 = compare against calculated requirement only.
tonnes.

Other Voyage Costs

currency/day. Set 0 for fuel-only voyage cost.
currency.
currency.
currency.

Planning Readiness

Planning limitation: Cube-law speed scaling is a screening approximation. Actual consumption depends on displacement, draft/trim, hull/propeller condition, engine load/SFOC, wind, waves, current, shallow water, fouling, weather routing, auxiliary load, boiler demand and operational restrictions. Use vessel-specific performance data and company reserve policy for the final bunker order.
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