Spot European soda ash cargoes emerge in long market after pandemic
By Michael Greenfield, Michael Greenfield
Published: Wednesday, 03 February 2021
After a year of weak demand for soda ash, "excess" spot cargoes have been offered out of Europe to as far afield as South Africa, market participants told Fastmarkets.
The European soda ash market is ordinarily serviced by
long-term contracts which leave little material available on
the spot market and results in fairly stable pricing for most
of the year.
But a year of soft demand for the material due to the
Covid-19 pandemic has led to a...