Asia retreats from the spot market

Thursday, 12 March 2026 08:38

Asian spot buyers curtailed demand in February, removing over 3.2MMt of combined Chinese and Indian demand in a single month. Atlantic supply was drawn into the Pacific while Europe absorbed near-record volumes against critically depleted storage and an increasingly concentrated supplier base, our Markets Editor Dr Alexander Wilk writes. 


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