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The U.S. is busy but little is being fixed due to a shortage of ships. Europe has quieted considerably after a busy couple of weeks, while Asia sees b ...

Adrian Brown is away. Adrian Brown is a senior market analyst for chemicals and base oils with SSY Shipbrokers, London. Information about SSY can be f ...

Regional dealers are widely viewed as key cogs for producers seeking timely headway in Chinas vast lubricant market. As the landscape becomes more com ...

A perceptible tightening of space in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Gulf has transpired without fanfare – the market has even been perceived as quiet ...

All the main markets in the U.S., Europe and Asia have moved up a notch to the extent that prompt space is becoming scarcer. Volumes are still not at ...

BRB International B.V. and Tiarco Chemical entered a commercial and technical partnership to collaborate on the development and supply of lubricant ad ...

ExxonMobil is reentering the Vietnamese finished lubricants market via two distributors after selling its blending plant and most other lube assets th ...

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Chicago-based lubricants distributor Keller-Heartt expanded operations by opening a 35,000 square foot warehouse in southeast Wisconsin, increasing th ...

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It has all been rather slow this week. The U.S. Gulf is the region in which space is tightest and there is the most potential. Europe is strangely qui ...

Chemical distribution giant Brenntag is shifting its North American industry mix to finished lubricants in a big way with the acquisition of mega-dist ...

Asia continues to register a slight increase in new business. However, neither the U.S. nor Europe is as active as would normally be expected in Novem ...

There has not been much change this week – Asia continues to slowly reactivate, Europe is stable but not as seasonally busy as usual, and the U. ...

Asian markets have at last begun to perform a little better with a bit more cargo around. Europe has not changed greatly, with some routes more active ...

Trade out of the U.S. Gulf has been slightly more active the past few days. Europe is also making progress. Asia is slow as it emerges from a long hol ...

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It was another very slow week in all corners of the world, which is understandable given that a large portion of the global chemicals and oils market ...

Trade in all three main regions – the United States, Asia and Europe – has been rather slow over the past week, and traders are now settin ...