Turkey's thermal coal imports in January rose to the highest in three months, gaining 36.2% on the year to 2.080 million mt with Colombian volumes displacing Russian imports as the country's main supplier of the fuel, according to data from ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
Iron ore blast furnace pellet premiums rose further in March as some steelmakers were said to have agreed quarterly pricing for Q1 around the low $40s/dry mt, and leave open the opportunity to renegotiate for lower pricing later this year. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Pellet premiums
Kortrijk, Belgium-based Bekaert, one of the world's largest steel cord and wire manufacturers, has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Italian tire maker Pirelli for the acquisition of Pirelli's steel cord activities for ...
Tags: Bekaert, Steel Cord
Surface trade among the United States,Canada and Mexico increased 6.5%in December,the Department of Transportation announced. All trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners rose 6.4%to$90 billion,DOT's Bureau of ...
Tags: Nafta Surface Trade, Nafta, Transportation
US fuel oil demand fell to a seven-month low of 218,000 b/d in December, while 2013 demand overall was the lowest on record, US Energy Information Administration data published Thursday showed. The Thursday data are monthly numbers ...
European prices for polyethylene terephthalate have fallen to their lowest levels since August 2010 according to Platts data, and many sources expect further declines in March. The falls were driven primarily by import competition and ...
Japan's LNG imports in January rose 1.2% from December to 8.18 million mt but fell 0.8% year on year, data released Thursday by the Ministry of Finance showed. Australia was the largest supplier with 1.73 million mt of LNG, up 10.4% year ...
Tags: LNG Imports, Chemicals
The net volume of gas imported into the UK outstripped domestic production in 2013 for the first time ever, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Thursday. "Imports of gas again exceeded UK production, and in 2013 for the first ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Domestic Output
The volume of gas injected into the Italian grid in 2013 was 69.01 billion cubic meters, down 8.9% year on year, gas grid operator Snam Rete Gas said. In its 2013 consolidated financial results statement Friday, Snam said the fall was ...
Tags: natural gas, Chemicals
Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
The third meeting of Pakistan’s Federal Committee on Cotton (FCC), held under the chairmanship of Rukhsana Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Textile Industry (MinTex), unanimously agreed to fix the cotton production target at 15.1 million ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Target, Pakistan's
PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The federal government substantially lowered its estimate of how much the U.S. economy grew in the fourth quarter to reflect more comprehensive data showing consumer spending grew more slowly than first thought. Real gross domestic ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009, although the trade deficit increased in the final month ...
Tags: lowest net trade deficit, stagnating domestic product demand
According to the preliminary report released by the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), in 2013 apparent steel consumption in ASEAN countries increased by 8-10 percent year on year. Meanwhile, in the given year the region's ...
Tags: Steel Consumption, Mineral