Thermal and semi-soft coal shipments to China from the Port Waratah Coal Services terminals in eastern Australia slackened in August, slipping 13% month on month to 2.24 million mt from 2.6 million mt in July, said the port operator in a ...
Tags: semi-soft coal, Chemicals
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that China's net oil imports will exceed those of the United States by October 2013 on a monthly basis and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest importer of oil in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global oil prices are unlikely to drop below $100/b until 2025, supported by OPEC's market management efforts and crude demand growth in Asia, Leonid Fedun, vice president of Lukoil said Tuesday, presenting key findings of the company's ...
Tags: Oil Prices, OPEC's market
Global thermal coal prices are unlikely to recover this year unless Australian coal producers lower production or an unexpected event rattles the seaborne market and sends prices north, industry experts attending the Coaltrans Asia ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global packaging machinery production value stood at around US$48 billion in 2012, following robust growth of 10 percent that year. Over 2006-2012, production growth averaged 7percent annually in spite of more than a 5 percent year-on-year ...
Chinese demand of soybean used in feeding poultry and livestock will continue to decline because of the breakout of bird flu. China takes 60% in global soybean trading. Influenced by concerns of food safety and large-stock, the amount of ...
The financial services firm has unveiled its new report entitled 2013 Global forest, paper, and packaging trend watch: A changing landscape: South America’s influence on global markets. The report states that significant capacity ...
Tags: paper, packaging, packaging industry
The monthly average price for Asian butadiene plunged 13% to $1,738/mt FOB Korea in March against $2,007.50/mt in February over a lack of Chinese demand and oversupply, Platts data showed. The last time the monthly average was higher was ...
Tags: Butadiene, Average Price, Chemicals
Buying interest for imported cargoes of thermal coal was restricted to South African higher calorific coal in the Chinese spot market Thursday, market sources said. Seaborne-traded thermal coal with a calorific value of 5,500 kcal/kg on a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Thermal Coal, Coal
Competitively-priced cargoes of Indonesian thermal coal added to the downward pressure on Chinese spot prices Wednesday, with a Panamax spot cargo of Kalimantan 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal heard placed into south China at $83/mt CFR basis, ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the bill introduced Wednesday known as the "Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act" passed the US House of Representatives with overwhelming support in the 111th Congress and also has ...
Tags: steel, Iron, Metallurgy
The prospects for Australia's biggest commodities export continue to worsen in the eyes of forecasters, with the federal government's forecaster wiping $66 billion from expected iron ore export revenue out to 2016-17 and leading global ...
Tags: iron ore export revenue, sharemarket, share
Speaking on February 27, Li Xinchuang, deputy secretary-general of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that overall Chinese demand for iron ore in 2013 will reach 1.11 billion mt, up 5.7 percent year on year. The average Fe ...
The International Energy Agency remains largely in the dark over the real pace of China's surging oil demand despite long-running attempts to persuade the county to publish official data on consumption and oil stocks, the IEA's top energy ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Energy Security, Mineral
With diminishing diamond production in the aging mines globally on one hand and ever-increasing demand world-wide on the other, the industry would struggle to keep pace during 2013 with growing consumption in emerging economies like India ...
Tags: Diamond, Miners, Growing Demand