Links to previous press releases are below.
Chinese Minor Bulk Imports by Source
The 1.9 Mt year-on-year rise in September Chinese nickel ore imports to a near six-year high of 7.1 Mt featured rises in shipments from Indonesia (+1.0 Mt to 2.5 Mt) and the Philippines (+0.9 Mt to...
Read MoreLine Fill Commences in Gray Oak Crude Pipeline
Line fill and commissioning activities have started on the 900K b/d Gray Oak Pipeline which connects the Permian and the Eagle Ford Basins to the Texas Gulf Coast, Phillips 66 announced. The company,...
Read MoreSimpson Spence Young Partners with Signal Ocean
Press Release
International shipbroker Simpson Spence Young and Signal Ocean Ltd have announced today (28 October 2019) that they have entered into a strategic partnership as investors...
Global Crude Steel Production Growth Falls in September
World crude steel output contracted on an annual basis for the first time since April 2016 in September, falling 0.3% to 151.5 Mt, according to the World Steel Association. Chinese steel production...
Read MoreIGC Revises Corn and Soyabean Forecasts
In its October report, the International Grains Council (IGC) has projected world corn exports in the 2019/20 market year (July-June) will reach 167.5 Mt, up 2.9 Mt from September’s forecast. The projection...
Read MoreChina September Crude Import by Source
China’s combined crude oil imports from the Caribbean and Latin America dropped 107K b/d m-o-m to 1.23M b/d in September, as a 200K b/d fall in imports from Venezuela to a 9-year low of 144K b/d offset...
Read MoreSouth Korean Coking Coal and Iron Ore Imports Drop
At 1.8 Mt, South Korean coking coal imports tumbled to a six-year low in September, falling 1.4 Mt year-on-year, according to the Tex Report. Meanwhile, imports of iron ore fell to the lowest level since February at 5.1 Mt, but were flat year-on-year.
India CPP Exports Jump in September
India’s combined CPP exports rose 453K b/d m-o-m and 177K b/d y-o-y to 1.59M b/d in September, which was the highest since at least September 2010 (when SSY began collating Indian CPP export data),...
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