In today's dynamic maritime industry, enhancing onboard safety, improving efficiency, increasing sustainability, and reducing costs is crucial. To help shipowners meet these demands, NorthStandard has launched Get SET! – a portfolio of Safety & Efficiency Technologies that harness powerful, state-of-the-art advances to transform vessel operations.

As one of the world’s leading maritime insurers, NorthStandard is committed to providing exceptional service to our members, customers, and brokers. With the shift towards data-driven decision-making, our new digital experience is a gateway to key information, personnel, platforms, documents – and a highly personalised experience.

Take me to Fuel Insights

For NorthStandard members only via a NorthStandard account.

Fuel quality is one of the most challenging areas of ship management.

Recognising the need to manage risk and reduce claims in one of the most challenging areas of ship management – fuel quality – we’ve partnered with VPS, a leader in marine fuel testing and inspection services, to launch Fuel Insights. The latest resource in our Get SET! portfolio, our Fuel Insights platform is powered by VPS to provide actionable insights based on live VPS data, including fuel off-specs, calorific value, and density differences in all major bunkering ports.

By offering real-time fuel quality statistics through an interactive, user-friendly dashboard, Fuel Insights helps users anticipate risks and select the best-priced fuels with the lowest environmental footprint for fully informed fuel procurement decisions.

By choosing Fuel Insights, powered by VPS, shipowners and operators can accurately monitor, report, and reduce their fleet’s emissions while improving operational performance and mitigating risk.

What is Fuel Insights?

Fuel Insights is a marine fuel quality platform that provides actionable insights based on proprietary live data from VPS on fuel off-specs, calorific value, and density differences in all major bunkering ports.

The platform enables users to better anticipate risks associated with fuel quality and select fuels that offer the best value with the lowest environmental footprint. It is the ultimate destination for real-time fuel quality statistics presented in an interactive and user-friendly dashboard.

Fuel Insights gives you the tools and resources needed to make informed, data-driven, fuel procurement decisions.

Watch our Launch Video

We firmly believe that embracing and integrating new technology can deliver significant safety and operational benefits, securing a more resilient future for the shipping industry.

Find out more about our partnership with VPS in our video.

View our Webinar

Join our Loss Prevention Director - NNE and Decarbonisation, Mark Smith, for an insightful webinar alongside VPS to explore the future of fuel management.

Key benefits for members and shipowners

Risk reduction

Proactively manage risks and reduce claims by identifying potential fuel quality issues before they impact members’ operations. Fuel Insights provides actionable insights based on live VPS data, including fuel off-specs, calorific value, and density differences in all major bunkering ports.

Real-time information

Simple-to-use, intuitive platform provides easily accessible resources, and real-time, up-to-date information. Fuel Insights helps users anticipate risks associated with fuel quality and select the best-priced fuels with the lowest environmental footprint, empowering them to make informed, data-driven fuel procurement decisions.

Improve performance through actionable insights

By providing guidance that enables our members to improve their business performance by optimising their use of resources, minimising their environmental emissions and operating more sustainably, Fuel Insights helps protect our members’ assets, people and the planet.

Key features for members and shipowners

  • Actionable insights based on live VPS data, including fuel off-specs, calorific value, and density differences in all major bunkering ports

  • Real-time fuel quality statistics for informed, data-driven fuel procurement decisions.  

  • Easy access to key information with an interactive, user-friendly dashboard.

  • Sustainable, residual and distillate fuel analysis from VPS.

  • Trade with confidence with advanced benchmarking of suppliers for market transparency and informed fuel quality decisions.

Accessing our digital tools - your new NorthStandard account     

NorthStandard members can view key fuel statistics globally for market transparency and informed fuel quality decisions enabling them to trade with confidence.

You will need to have a NorthStandard account to access our Fuel Insights, powered by VPS.

With a single login and password via your new NorthStandard Account, you can now access our digital platforms, content, and self-service solutions.    

 If you previously had a MyNorth, NorthOnline or My Standard Club account, please read guidance below, explaining how to access your new NorthStandard account:

MyNorth / My Standard Club users 

If you are an existing user of MyNorth or My Standard Club, you'll need to reset your password using your existing email address. You can change your password here.

NorthOnline users 

If you are an existing NorthOnline user, you can simply login to your new NorthStandard Account using your existing NorthOnline login credentials.  Login here.

New users 

If you don’t have an account on our previous nepia.com or standard-club.com sites, you can register here.