07 3月 2023 Weight of Freight: A Year of Change The Russia-Ukraine conflict and subsequent US and European embargoes have lengthened oil supply chains, straining the capacity of the global tanker fleet.
02 3月 2023 Chemical Conversations: Pine Chemicals and Hydrocarbon Resins Listen as Leonardo Siqueira, Editor, Pine Chemicals, talks to Steve Williams, VP, C5 and Hydrocarbon Resins about:
02 3月 2023 How Intraday Monitoring of Fuel Prices Can Translate into Fuel Cost Savings This is the second installment of two covering best practices to incorporate into your business for improved fuel management.
01 3月 2023 Mind the gap: Mena grain imports Importers in several Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) countries have struggled to fulfil their grain purchase contracts owing to an ongoing shortage of foreign currency, with an increasing call for international monetary institutions to step in to handle the gap,
01 3月 2023 Market Talks: An outlook for the polymers market in Latin America in 2023 Polymers market, which includes some plastics resins, more specifically polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), has been growing across the continent for decades.
24 2月 2023 Metal Movers: The V in Largo Physical Vanadium Sian Morris, Noble Alloys Reporter at Argus, discusses the recent launch of Largo Physical Vanadium with CEO, Paul Vollant.
21 2月 2023 At the sharp end of the critical minerals supply crunch Something strange has happened to hafnium. This silvery-grey, high-temperature minor metal has historically attracted little attention.
21 2月 2023 Driving Discussions: Chatting Gasoline and Diesel from the Argus Crude Summit On this podcast episode, Jim Mitchell, Head of Americas Oil Analysts with Refinitiv, joins Argus Spot Ticker reporter and host Jason Metko, at the sidelines of this year's Argus Crude Summit in Houston.
17 2月 2023 SAF Insights: Sustainable finance and SAF What role does SAF play in the world of sustainable finance?
16 2月 2023 Market Talks: Opportunities for Brazil at the pulses market The growing market for pulses is in line with the higher demand for vegetable proteins in the world. Brazil has always been a large pulse producer, as it already met a heavy domestic demand.
16 2月 2023 The Importance of a Well-Written Fuel Contract and a Visible Fuel Price Benchmark For many companies, having a well-thought-out fuel buying program – with well-written contracts and a visible, transparent ‘benchmark’ as a cost basis – is an afterthought. Many companies – some of whom buy upward of 500-mil gallons a year of fuel – treat the fuel buyin
16 2月 2023 Rising Asian co-products and propane prices lift ethylene cracker margins, but weak economics linger Strong butadiene (BD), propylene and propane prices in northeast Asia have helped improve ethylene cracker costs in recent weeks, but negative margins persist.
13 2月 2023 Weight of Freight: Russian trade flows pressure dirty tanker freight The shift in trade patterns with the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict has pressured freight rates lower for dirty tankers, as reduced tonne-mile-demand and a lack of Russian volumes shipped on larger vessels has led to a vicious downwards cannibalisation within the ta
09 2月 2023 Weight of Freight: Can the ammonia fleet match growing demand? There has been plenty of noise over the demand profile of ammonia, both as a commodity and a marine fuel, with the product being touted as the ideal solution in the race to decarbonise shipping. But with all the talk of large demand projects, will there be enough vessel
09 2月 2023 Driving Discussions: Early 2023 Movements in US Base Oils In this latest podcast of the series, Argus Spot Ticker reporter and host Jason Metko sits down with Argus' Base Oils reporter John Dietrich, discussing market dynamics since the start of 2023, and provides a preview of Argus' first global base oils conference scheduled
