The Gulf Coast heating oil differential fell 75 points Wednesday as US production and stocks increased and traders cited trouble finding ships to move any export barrels. Platts assessed the Gulf Coast heating oil differential at NYMEX ...
Tags: Heating Oil, Chemicals
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week higher Friday, helped by robust activity in the Atlantic basin. "The Atlantic basin is firm for both Supramaxes and ...
Gasoil volumes from Northwest Europe have been heading to the Red Sea, rather than from the traditional supply region of Asia, to meet rising demand for power generation in the Middle East, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, driven ...
Tags: Gasoil Volumes, Power Generator
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week stable to slightly lower, even as a number of vessel fixtures were reported, as there were not enough cargoes to absorb ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Coal
Trucking conditions keep improving according to FTR's Trucking Conditions Index (TCI), and with new hours-of-service regs set to begin in July, that could benefit truckers. The latest TCI report is showing another 2+ point increase ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucking
A tanker carrying around 10,000 mt (12,680 cu m) of ethanol loading in the west coast of Central America is due for arrival in the European ports of Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp by late May, according to a shipping report by broker SPI ...
Tags: Ethanol Shipment, Chemicals
Freight rates to ship coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao Port to the other Chinese ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou fell in the week ended May 7, a weekly report released by Qinhuangdao Port Thursday showed. The freight ...
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India jumped Friday due to a large number of fixtures for grain cargoes in the Atlantic basin, market participants said. "Some of the ...
The industry has a new company in town — Accell Group North America. And its new structure is taking aim at the industry's top three brands — Trek, Specialized and Giant. At a small dealer meeting Tuesday morning, Steve ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline market
At the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Gianpiero Repole, commercial director of Liberty Group assessed the current situation in long steel markets and shared his opinions regarding the ...
Tags: steel, minerals, steel industry
ProfitFreight, a division of retail technology company ProfitSystems that combines the buying power of its members to secure reduced freight rates, said its members saw savings of more than $2 million last year. ProfitSystems launched the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Reignited concerns over the domestic benzene demand as well as a stubbornly closed arbitrage to the US saw European benzene prices plunge below $1,300/mt for the first time since mid-October, Platts data show. Benzene barges were assessed ...
Tags: benzene, benzene demand, benzene barges
The Northwest European March benzene contract price has been fully settled at Eur1,054/mt, or $1,380/mt, CIF ARA, industry sources confirmed Friday. The settlement represents an increase of Eur14/mt and a decrease of $28/mt compared ...
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week higher on Friday as grain cargoes in the Atlantic basin absorbed tonnages from both hemispheres, sources said. ...
Tags: coal freight, coal, Panamax freight