China's crude oil imports in March edged up 0.9% year on year to 23.25 million mt or an average 5.5 million b/d, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs. The imports were down 8.8% from ...
An expected surplus of gasoil in Asia from greenfield and upgraded refineries might flow into the marine fuel market in late 2014 or early 2015, trade sources said Wednesday. Asia's maritime industry is looking to the possible supply as ...
Tags: Gasoil, Fuel Market, greenfield
Argentina exported 92,755 mt of biodiesel in February, a 106% jump from the same period in a year ago, according to Argentinian Biofuels Association, or CARBIO, data that Platts received Thursday. February fixture data indicated as much ...
Tags: Biodiesel Exports, Biofuels
The tobacco giant said all cigarette production for the Australian market would be moved to its plant in South Korea. The company said stagnation in exports, decline in domestic demand, and Australia's regulation regarding cigarette ...
Tags: Packaging, Cigarette Industry
While current traded prices for L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province have slipped since March 3, the market is likely to see higher traded values in the coming weeks with some offers seen rising by as much as ...
Tags: Pig Iron, steel mills, Iron
Russian coking coal producer Raspadskaya lost a net $126 million in 2013, quadrupled from a net loss of $29.5 million a year ago, as its share of exports in its overall sales volumes grew to 42% due to weaker domestic demand, Raspadskaya ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Miner, integrated mining
Although China is the power of stationery exporting, most of the stationery enterprises are all OEM, no brand, no added value, and already appeared for a long time in the world.So the profits of products is very low, in recent years, due ...
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
German polyester fibre specialist Trevira GmbH, Bobingen, has voiced its satisfaction with the past fiscal year in view of annual sales totalling about EUR 250 million (2012: EUR 232 million). Changes in the product mix and a positive ...
Tags: polyester fibre, Textile
The transaction prices of L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province stood at Yuan 2,460-2,510 ($400-408) /mt on March 3, down 1.6% from Yuan 2,500-2,550/mt on January 28, with the widely expected post-holiday ...
Tags: Pig Iron, Steel Market
Over the past three years, solar photovoltaic (PV) installed system prices, module prices, and module production costs have all fallen by more than 50%, while a shakeout of uncompetitive PV cell makers has caused the number of suppliers to ...
Tags: PV Industry, Solar PV
US polyethylene contracts rose 4 cents/lb in February after producers were successful in implementing the hike that had been anticipated since the end of 2013, market sources said. Producer sources had expressed confidence in obtaining ...
Tags: Polyethylene, Chemicals
The March US butadiene contract price Friday settled up 8-13 cents/lb ($176-$287/mt) from February at a 68-78 cents/lb ($1,499-$1,720/mt) split settlement, sources said. LyondellBasell, Shell Chemicals and TPC Group settled up 8 cents/lb ...
Cotton arrivals were brisk all over Cotton Mandies during fortnight ending February 28. Quality has been not to the required level in terms of fineness and uniformity etc since there was mixing up of 1st and 2nd pickings. Cotton prices ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Apparel
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