Fluorspar latest news

• June 2021

  EU to impose carbon border adjustment mechanism on steel, Al imports, other products

  11 June 2021

  The European Commission (EC) plans to set a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) for imports of some goods, including steel and aluminium, to prevent the risk of carbon leakage, according to a draft of the EC’s proposal seen by Fastmarkets on June 10.

• Container shipping bottleneck emerges amid southern China's Covid-19 fight

  09 June 2021

  A rise in Covid-19 cases in China’s Guangdong province in recent weeks has led to tighter controls and rigorous testing at the huge Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT), causing extended delays in southern China.

• Shipping's container chaos to continue, DP World exec says

  02 June 2021

  The chaos being experienced in the global container shipping industry is expected to continue for some time with a shortage of an estimated four million boxes creating havoc with congestion, routes and freight rates, according to an executive at logistics conglomerate DP World.

• May 2021

  Rotterdam almost clear of Suez blockage backlog, Port Authority says

  12 May 2021

  The so-called “Suez Armada” of vessels that were delayed by the unintentional blockage of the Suez Canal has now been processed by the Port of Rotterdam, but the port was still “extremely” busy and there were challenges ahead for the shipping sector, speakers said during the Supply Chain Talks digital event on Wednesday May 5.

• Slow demand puts pressure on China’s fluorspar acidspar prices post-holiday

  11 May 2021

  China’s fluorspar acidspar export prices were rangebound but showing weakness after the country’s Labor Day holiday, with no impreovement in downstream demand.

• AT A GLANCE: ArcelorMittal's Q1 earnings ‘strongest in a decade’

  07 May 2021

  A summary of ArcelorMittal's financial results for January-March 2021.