container freight shortages

7 min read 2022-01-14 09:01:22

European and US LLDPE margins may in 2022 sink towards northeast Asian levels

By John Richardson A GOOD FRIEND and contact messaged me this week to say, “Wow, this is complicated”. Yes, I am afraid so. These are the most

5 min read 2021-12-02 18:16:20

By John Richardson UNTIL ALL of us are adequately vaccinated none of us are sufficiently protected is a point I’ve been making since late last

5 min read 2021-12-02 18:16:20

By John Richardson UNTIL ALL of us are adequately vaccinated none of us are sufficiently protected is a point I’ve been making since late last

1 min read 2021-11-22 07:52:12

By John Richardson THE BALTIC DRY INDEX, one of the excellent barometers of overall economic activity, was late last week at its lowest level since

8 min read 2021-11-22 07:52:12

By John Richardson THE BALTIC DRY INDEX, one of the excellent barometers of overall economic activity, was late last week at its lowest level since

1 min read 2021-11-12 09:01:11

By John Richardson RARELY, IF EVER, have events felt so bafflingly complex in the global polyethylene (PE) business. Take as an example the chart

6 min read 2021-11-12 09:01:11

By John Richardson RARELY, IF EVER, have events felt so bafflingly complex in the global polyethylene (PE) business. Take as an example the chart

1 min read 2021-09-22 09:25:07

By John Richardson WILL BEIJING blink? The answer to this question could pretty much set the direction of the global petrochemicals industry over the

1 min read 2021-09-20 08:15:59

By John Richardson ON THE PLUS side of the H2 China polyolefins demand ledger are the Golden Week Holidays between 1-7 October and the Singles’ Day

1 min read 2021-09-15 08:20:42

By John Richardson IT IS VERY HARD to see how we will get out of this container crisis anytime soon. The crisis looks set to last until at least the

1 min read 2021-09-05 15:49:13

By John Richardson NORTHEAST ASIAN (NEA) polypropylene (PP) producers are finding it increasingly difficult to export cargoes outside their region

1 min read 2021-09-02 15:59:05

By John Richardson IT USED TO BE the case that petrochemicals demand could be considered as a global whole. But this was before the pandemic. The

1 min read 2021-08-31 14:16:52

By John Richardson NOW we must be very careful here. Time and time again, Chinese polyolefins growth has defied the doom mongers. Just look at 2015

1 min read 2021-08-26 14:37:37

By John Richardson AS I’VE BEEN arguing for the past ten years, the global petrochemicals industry is enormously, disproportionately, reliant on

1 min read 2021-08-23 09:50:13

By John Richardson CHINA’S imports of polypropylene (PP) look set to fall to some 4.4m tonnes in 2021 – a 33% reduction over last year’s