Demand for polymers in India has seen a slight recovery, a week after the easing of restrictions on industrial operations to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9497 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
Thailand's road construction activity has picked up after the government released funding and the country lifted a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown earlier this month.
News ID: 9493 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
Vietnam's April ferrous scrap import s fell by 38.2pc to 401,055t from a year earlier, slowed by Covid-19-related restrictions.
News ID: 9489 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
Virus-sapped demand and increased domestic competition for market share could push diesel import s into Brazil to the lowest point of 2020, according to preliminary data analyzed by Argus.
News ID: 9365 Publish Date : 2020/05/07
China’s March crude oil import s from top supplier Saudi Arabia fell 1.6% from a year earlier, while purchases from No. 2 supplier Russia rose 31%, Reuters’ calculations based on customs data showed on Sunday.
News ID: 9310 Publish Date : 2020/05/03
Russia's construction output is likely to drop on the back of the Covid-19 outbreak, as is the case with many other countries.
News ID: 9300 Publish Date : 2020/05/04
India's Punjab state has become the first to extend its Covid-19 lockdown, amid rising indications that nationwide measures may continue in some form beyond the scheduled end date of 3 May.
News ID: 9276 Publish Date : 2020/04/30
Indian coking coal import s moving through 12 key state-controlled ports rose slightly from a year earlier during April 2019 to March 2020, as restocking initially accelerated but tapered off amid port closures as the Covid-19 outbreak worsened in India and lockdowns were imposed.
News ID: 9266 Publish Date : 2020/04/29
With just three days remaining to the expiry of a 30-day US waiver to import Iranian gas and electricity, Iraq will struggle to drum up some $10 billion in investments over a four-year period to stop these import s at a time when US patience with OPEC's second-largest oil producer is wearing thin.
News ID: 9228 Publish Date : 2020/04/25
Ivory Coast bitumen producer SMB has cut production at its 520,000 t/yr (10,500 b/d) Abidjan refinery by a third in response to a dramatic fall in construction activity and bitumen import requirements across west Africa.
News ID: 9213 Publish Date : 2020/04/22
Vietnam's oil product import s in March were at the lowest monthly levels since January 2017 as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hit demand.
News ID: 9175 Publish Date : 2020/04/16
Vietnam's coal import s increased in March from a year earlier, partly because some cargoes destined for India were resold to Vietnamese buyers. But there is uncertainty surrounding Vietnam's future demand amid a lack of clarity on whether its Covid-19 restrictions, which are set to expire today, will be extended.
News ID: 9157 Publish Date : 2020/04/15
Vietnam's state-owned downstream firm Petrolimex does not plan to import any jet fuel in April or May because of a slump in domestic demand.
News ID: 9138 Publish Date : 2020/04/14
India's bitumen demand is expected to continue to suffer as the country announced an extension of its Covid-19 lockdown until 3 May.
News ID: 9136 Publish Date : 2020/04/14
Sari Su border crossing connecting Iran’s West Azarbaijan Province to Turkey will be used as a new route for trade between the two countries as of Friday, after Bazargan border crossing, in the same province, was closed in March due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID 19.
News ID: 9109 Publish Date : 2020/04/10
South Korea is deferring taxes on crude import s for the next three months to help refiners and other buyers weather a slump in fuel demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9077 Publish Date : 2020/04/08
Vietnam has extended safeguard measures on import s of steel billet, rebar and wire rod until 2023, the trade and industry ministry said.
News ID: 8846 Publish Date : 2020/03/24
Coking coal import s to India have begun to be affected by the coronavirus outbreak, as berthing and uploading activities are halted at some major ports.
News ID: 8838 Publish Date : 2020/03/24
Indonesia's billet import s were recorded at 376,169 MT during Jan’20 to book an M-o-M decline of approximately 20%. Also, the same witnessed a Y-o-Y decline of approximately 41% from 634,221 MT during Jan’19. India, Russia and, Pakistan were noted to be the top billet exporters to the country with 68,933 MT, 68,364 MT and 65,662 MT of billet exports respectively, during the month.
News ID: 8814 Publish Date : 2020/03/17
As per the latest data released by the customs and compiled by SteelMint, India’s finish-flat import s stood at 0.30 MnT in Feb’20 down by 17% on a monthly premise as against 0.37 MnT in Jan’20.
News ID: 8813 Publish Date : 2020/03/17