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SHIPPING: Asia-USWC container rates edge higher on late-season holiday demand
HOUSTON (ICIS)–Shipping container rates from east Asia and China to the US West Coast rose this week, reversing a trend that saw rates fall by almost 36% from July, as late-season holiday demand emerged. Many importers had pulled holiday volumes early to avoid any problems related to a US East Coast dock workers strike that was set to begin on 1 October. Judah Levine, head of research at online freight shipping marketplace and platform provider Freightos, said front-loading of volumes to the East Coast in September may have been stronger than to the West Coast due to the rush to beat the 1 October strike deadline. Supply chain advisors Drewry has Shanghai-USWC rates edging higher by less than 1% and said of the increase in spot rates ex-China that it expects this trend to continue as the Christmas rush intensifies. Drewry’s World Container Index showed average global rates rising, as shown in the following chart. Rates from Shanghai to Europe rose more dramatically than those from Shanghai to the US, as shown in the following chart from Drewry. Levine said the stronger front loading of volumes to the East Coast could explain the sharper drop of East Coast rates over the last few weeks, as well as the anomaly that saw East Coast rates fall below West Coast rates. Rates to the East Coast are typically about $1,000/FEU (40-foot equivalent units) higher than to the West Coast. Drewry still has East Coast rates about $400/FEU higher than West Coast rates. Levine noted that rates to both coasts are still $1,000-1,500/FEU above their April lows. Container ships and costs for shipping containers are relevant to the chemical industry because while most chemicals are liquids and are shipped in tankers, container ships transport polymers, such as polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), are shipped in pellets. They also transport liquid chemicals in isotanks. EAST COAST LABOR UPDATE Union dock workers and US East Coast port operators will resume negotiations on a new master agreement in November, according to a joint statement from both parties. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), representing the dock workers, and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents the ports, reached a tentative agreement on 3 October that ended a three-day strike. The strike was paused until 15 January after parties agreed on the salary portion of the agreement, essentially meeting in the middle. Levine said port automation remains the major sticking point, and if there is no progress in the coming weeks anxious shippers may start increasing orders again ahead of another possible strike. CANADA WEST COAST PORT LABOR UNREST The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA), which represents ports on Canada’s west coast, has issued formal notice of its intention to lock out port workers coastwide, starting Monday, 4 November at 8:00 local time, it said on Friday. On Canada’s east coast, dock workers at the Port of Montreal on Thursday, 31 October, went on an indefinite strike at two of the port’s four container terminals. The labor dispute is about automation at Dubai Ports World (Canada), as well as retirement benefits. The parties have been negotiating a new collective labor deal since the last one expired in March 2023. LIQUID CHEM TANKER RATES STABLE US chemical tanker freight rates were largely unchanged this week for most trade lanes, while vessel demand continues to be soft for various routes. The USG to ARA remains soft and solid for contractual cargoes and any additional available CPP tonnage could continue to pressure the market even further. Similarly, that situation exists for volumes on the USG to the Caribbean and South America trade lanes. From the USG to these regions, space among regular carriers remains available, due to a lack of interest. However, for the USG to Asia spot volumes continues to be weak as there seems to be plenty of prompt space available. Mainly parcels of methanol to China seems to have provided any support to the weak market. Additionally, ethanol, glycols and caustic soda were seen in the market in various directions. With additional reporting by Stefan Baumgarten and Kevin Callahan Visit the ICIS Logistics – impact on chemicals and energy topic page
01-Nov-2024
LyondellBasell may make 2026 FID on US chemical recycling plant
HOUSTON (ICIS)–LyondellBasell could make a final investment decision (FID) in 2026 on a second chemical recycling plant, which it may build in the US at its refinery site in Houston, the CEO said on Friday. "FID, for the final step, I would expect that to happen in 2026," said Peter Vanacker, LyondellBasell CEO. He made his comments during an earnings conference call. The chemical recycling plant would feature LyondellBasell's MoReTec process technology. The plant could produce 100,000 tonnes/year of cracker feedstock. If LyondellBasell moves ahead with the MoReTec plant, it could be part of a larger project that would convert the Houston refinery into a sustainability hub. The refinery's existing hydrotreaters would be retrofitted so they could upgrade the output from the MoReTec unit as well as from third-party recycling plants. Once upgraded, the feedstock could be shipped by pipeline to LyondellBasell's cracker operations in nearby Channelview, where it will be converted into olefins. Those olefins would be polymerized to produce circular polyolefins, which LyondellBasell would market under its CirculenRevive brand. LyondellBasell could also retrofit other units at the refinery that would convert renewable material into distillates and feedstock that the company could process in its crackers. LyondellBasell could market the resulting polymers under its CirculenRenew brand. LyondellBasell did not provide details about the source of these renewable feedstocks. However, one source could be a storage and logistics hub in Harvey, Louisiana, that is being developed by Kinder Morgan and Finnish refiner Neste. The hub collects used cooking oil and other renewable feedstock, and it could be expanded at Neste's option. Neste pioneered the production of naphtha from renewable feedstock, and the Houston refinery is a short distance by sea from Harvey. In the future, the hydrogen that LyondellBasell would need for upgrading recycled and renewable feedstock could come from nearby blue and green hydrogen projects. LyondellBasell, Air Liquide, Chevron and Uniper are part of a consortium that is evaluating sites for a hydrogen and ammonia project on the Gulf Coast. The Houston refinery is the top choice for the site. More hydrogen could come from the proposed Houston HyVelocity Hub. It is among the hubs participating in the Department of Energy's Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program. SHUTDOWN OF HOUSTON REFINERY IN Q1In January, LyondellBasell will start shutting down the first crude distillation unit and coker train at the refinery. In February, the company will begin shutting down the second crude distillation unit and coker train, the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit and other ancillary units. The refinery does not have a catalytic reformer. CONSTRUCTION STARTS AT GERMAN RECYCLNG PLANTIn September, LyondellBasell started construction at its MoReTec 1 plant in Wesseling, Germany, which will have a capacity of 50,000 tonnes/year and which should start up in 2026. Vanacker said the plant has a plastic-to-plastic yield of more than 80%. It can use 100% renewable power. Thumbnail photo: Plastic which can be recycled. (By Allison Dinner/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
01-Nov-2024
BLOG: Developing world outside China to the rescue, but not for long
SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Click here to see the latest blog post on Asian Chemical Connections by John Richardson: Understanding chemicals and polymers demand during the 1992-2021 Chemicals Supercycle was easy, firstly, because demand always boomed and secondly, because these were the dominant factors shaping markets: Lots of young people moving to the cities in China to make goods for export followed by China’s enormous debt and speculation bubble from 2009 onwards, which was mainly centered on real estate. Now, as the future of demand growth is in the Developing World ex-China, we need to understand hundreds of different countries. Before you get carried away with excitement, ICIS analysis suggests this: Developing World ex-China demand cannot do anything over as long as perhaps the next seven years to substantially absorb all-time high levels of oversupply. Why the oversupply? Because too many people missed the build-up of demographic and debt challenges in China and didn’t react quickly enough when the 2021 Evergrande Moment arrived. This is a lesson for how we analyze the Developing World ex-China. Focusing on polypropylene (PP) as an example: Despite the Developing World ex-China's much bigger population of around six billion versus China's population of some 1.4 billion, ICIS still expects that by 2030, Developing World ex-China's demand will be some 8 million tonnes lower than China's. The ICIS base case assumes that global PP capacity exceeding demand will average 25 million tonnes a year in 2021-2024. This compares with just 5 million tonnes a year during the 1992-2021 Chemicals Supercycle. Global operating rates averaged 87% in 1992-2023. But given this oversupply, our forecast for 2024-2030 is 77%. To achieve 87%, assuming our base case assumption for production is right (the same as demand), capacity would have to grow by an average 2.2m tonnes a year versus our base case of 4.8 million tonnes. As feedstock-advantaged producers such as those in the Middle East are likely to press ahead with projects, and as China may continue to add more capacity, capacity growth of 2.2 million tonnes a year implies closures of plants elsewhere. The ICIS base assumes 4% average annual PP demand growth in China in 2024-2030 when 2%, in my view, is more likely. If 2% growth were to happen, and demand growth in the other regions was the same as our base case, capacity growth would need to be just 1.4 million tonnes year to achieve an 87% operating rate in 2024-2030. Let’s next take 2% off Chinese growth and add this to our base case forecast for the Developing World ex-China. Capacity would still have to grow by just 1.9 million tonnes a year to achieve an 87% operating rate in 2024-2030 compared with, as mentioned earlier, our base case assumption of capacity growth of 4.8 million tonnes. While, as I said, the Developing World ex-China offers long-term big opportunities, we should keep in mind the words of Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. Editor’s note: This blog post is an opinion piece. The views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of ICIS.
01-Nov-2024
PODCAST/VIDEO: Global chemicals at tipping point as CEOs react to persistent downturn
BARCELONA (ICIS)–More chemical industry leaders are making bold strategic decisions to combat a multi-year downturn, driving their companies to focus on areas where they can seize a competitive advantage. China-driven overcapacity could imbalance global supply/demand until 2030 Need for large-scale capacity closures to balance market Industry has reached turning point Companies can choose to focus on commodities or become specialty/low carbon players CEOs waking up to the need for a radical examination of their assets and strategies A trickle of announcements about closures and restructurings turning into a flood leaders such as BASF, Dow, LyondellBasell, Versalis take bold steps to reduce their commodity footprint in Europe In this Think Tank podcast, Will Beacham interviews ICIS Insight Editor Nigel Davis, ICIS Senior Consultant Asia John Richardson and Paul Hodges, chairman of New Normal Consulting. This is the audio version of a special ICIS Think Tank Live webinar (see below) recorded on 30 October. Editor’s note: This podcast is an opinion piece. The views expressed are those of the presenter and interviewees, and do not necessarily represent those of ICIS. ICIS is organizing regular updates to help the industry understand current market trends. Register here. Read the latest issue of ICIS Chemical Business. Read Paul Hodges and John Richardson's ICIS blogs.
31-Oct-2024
Saudi Aramco, Petrovietnam collaborate on energy, petrochemical trades
SINGAPORE (ICIS)–State-owned energy companies Saudi Aramco and Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) will explore opportunities in storage, supply and trading of energy and petrochemical products. The two companies signed a collaboration framework agreement during a state visit of Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to Saudi Arabia on 30 October, Aramco said in a statement. “This agreement lays the foundation for potential collaboration across the hydrocarbon value chain,” Aramco downstream president Mohammed Al Qahtani said. “We look forward to exploring multiple opportunities with Petrovietnam that complement Aramco’s global downstream ambitions, contribute to Petrovietnam’s own strategy, and reinforce Asia’s importance in global energy and petrochemicals markets,” he said. Saudi Aramco, which is the world’s biggest crude exporter, has been diversifying its business by heavily investing in petrochemicals. Vietnam is one of the fast-growing emerging economies in southeast Asia. It recently started up its first integrated petrochemical complex, which is operated by Long Son Petrochemical – a wholly owned subsidiary of SCG (Siam Cement Group) Chemicals.
31-Oct-2024
SI Group's debt exchange leads to another default – Fitch
HOUSTON (ICIS)–SI Group completed another debt exchange, which led Fitch Ratings to determine that the company defaulted again, the ratings agency said on Wednesday. Fitch considered SI Group's offering a distressed debt exchange and found that the company was once more in restricted default. Fitch has since rated SI Group CCC, which is four notches above default. During the first half of 2024, SI Group saw declines in sales and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), Fitch said. The declines were caused by weak demand, destocking in 2023 and increased competition from new plants in China. Sales volumes should remain low and free cash flow should remain negative throughout Fitch's forecast horizon. SI Group could face a liquidity crisis, and it may need fresh third-party support within the next 24 months, Fitch said. SI Group makes specialty chemicals used in coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) as well as in lubricants, fuels, surfactants and polymers. Other chemical companies are also coming under increased stress from low-cost imports. INEOS Styrolution plans to shut down a plant in Addyston, Ohio state, US, that makes acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and styrene acrylonitrile (SAN). Decommissioning will start in the second quarter of 2025. INEOS Styrolution is also permanently shutting down a styrene plant in Sarnia, Ontario province, Canada. That plant was idled earlier this year after complaints about benzene emissions, which led to a dispute with regulators. In addition, China, once a key outlet for North American styrene, has added significant styrene capacity over the past three years. Additional reporting by John Donnelly
30-Oct-2024
UK to accept fuel-exempt mass balanced chemical recycling in UK plastic packaging tax
LONDON (ICIS)—The UK government will support the use of mass balance for chemical recycling under the UK plastic packaging tax using a fuel-exempt accounting approach at site-level, it published in a consultation response late on Wednesday. The original consultation on “Plastic Packaging Tax – chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach” was conducted from 18 July-10 October 2023. “Chemical recycling can complement the use of mechanical recycling technologies by enabling more types of plastic to be recycled and by producing a higher grade of recycled plastic, which can be used in regulated sectors such as food contact packaging. Chemical recycling therefore has the potential to help increase rates of plastic recycling,” the UK government said in its consultation response. As part of the consultation response, the government also announced that it will phase out the use of pre-consumer material as contributing towards recycled content thresholds in tax calculations. Under the UK Plastic Packaging tax, any packaging which is predominantly plastic by weight, and that does not contain at least 30% recycled material is subject to a charge of £217.85/tonne on the total weight of the packaging. When the tax was introduced, both chemical and mechanical recycling were accepted as contributing toward the target, but there was no decision on the acceptance of mass balance. In mass-balance, a certified volume of renewable or recycled material is input across a production run but may not be evenly distributed across each individual product. For example, a plant may use 30% recycled material overall, but one piece of produced packaging could contain 100% recycled material, and the next 100% virgin material, or any mix between those two extremes. Via this method, market players are able to state that they use a certain percentage of recycled or renewable material in their products, without having to prove that percentage in each individual product produced. Mass-balance is widely used in a number of industries and is not exclusive to either mechanical or chemical recycling. There have been different proposed accounting rules for mass-balance, all of which alter the possible recycled polymer output allocations, and therefore profitability throughout the chain, pyrolysis oil’s competitive position against mechanical recycling, and the sector’s attractiveness to investors. Under fuel exempt mass balance accounting rules, volumes used in fuel applications would not be attributable as recycled material, but material not ending up in fuels would be freely attributable across the value chain. Given that pyrolysis oil – the dominant form of chemical recycling in Europe – is used as a naphtha substitute in a cracker, many see acceptance of mass-balance as an essential enabler for chemical recycling to count towards recycling content thresholds. The UK government will not adopt definitions of chemical recycling under ISO standard 15270:2008, arguing that definitions of chemical recycling must be process and technology neutral. “The government intends to introduce a definition of chemical recycling in line with the proposed definition by the European Coalition for Chemical Recycling, for the purpose of the tax. This will enable businesses to use a mass balance approach to account for recycled material produced from any technology or process that meets the definition of chemical recycling,” the government stated. The government also said that differing units of measurement may be used at different parts of the supply chain. For example, mass being used at polymer and packaging level, and a Lower Heating Value approach used at refinery level. The government further stated that accredited certification schemes will be necessary to audit and certify the mass balance volumes, and it intends to accredit multiple certification schemes. The government also signaled that while it is not currently making changes to medical exemptions under the tax at present it intends to remove this exemption once more chemically recycled plastic is available. “Producers and importers of medical packaging are encouraged to start considering how to include more recycled plastic in their packaging as chemical recycling capacity, feedstock levels, recyclate availability increase, and advancements in technology are developed,” it stated. There was no timeframe announced for when these changes would take place. Clarity on the UKs approach to mass balance will be welcomed by the market. Despite structural tightness of pyrolysis oil in Europe, buying interest in 2024 to date has been lower than that seen in 2023 largely due to ongoing legal uncertainty over approaches to mass balance accounting. Legal uncertainty was one of the factors cited by Quantafuel in August for the cancellation of its 100,000 tonne/year pyrolysis-based chemical recycling project in Sunderland. On 16 July the British Plastics Federation (BPF) submitted a joint letter it had coordinated to the incoming Exchequer Secretary James Murray MP, calling for an urgent response to the previous government’s mass balance consultation. ICIS covers 3 grades of pyrolysis oil in its Mixed Plastic Waste and Pyrolysis Oil Europe pricing service . ICIS also offers mechanical recycling, waste bale, biodiesel, hydrogen, and virgin price coverage, giving you the complete picture across the sustainability value chain. For more information, please contact Mark Victory at mark.victory@icis.com.
30-Oct-2024
UPDATE: Japan's Sumitomo Chemical trims fiscal H1 net loss; eyes LDPE output cut
SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Sumitomo Chemical trimmed its fiscal H1 to September 2024 net loss to Japanese yen (Y) 6.5 billion ($42 million), aided by sales growth of about 5%, while it seeks to rationalize operations to boost profitability. Return to profit expected for year-to-March 2025 IT-related chemicals' fiscal H1 core operating profit more than doubles Chiba Works LDPE output to fall by 20,000 tonne/year in billion yen (Y) Apr-Sept 2024 Apr-Sept 2023 % change Yr-to-March 2025 (revised forecast) Yr-to-March 2024 (actual) Sales revenue 1,241.4 1,186.9 4.6 2,600.0 2,446.9 Core operating profit 29.5 -96.7 – 100.0 -149.0 Operating income 121.2 -133.7 – 180.0 -488.8 Net income -6.5 -76.3 – -25.0 -311.8 Revenues for the period increased on higher selling prices of synthetic resins, methyl methacrylate (MMA) and various industrial chemicals due to higher raw material prices, the company said in a statement. Sumitomo Chemical's Essential Chemicals & Plastics segment posted a lower core operating loss of Y36.7 billion, with sales up by 3.3% year on year to Y403 billion, it said. However, it noted that earnings were weighed down by a deterioration in the financial performance of its 37.5%-owned affiliate Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. Meanwhile, IT-related chemicals posted a 10% increase in sales to Y224.3 billion, with core operating income more than doubling to Y37.5 billion, on the back of strong demand for display-related materials and processing materials for semiconductors, it said. For the whole of fiscal year ending March 2025, Sumitomo Chemical lowered its sales forecast by Y70 billion to Y2.6 trillion, but raised its net profit forecast by Y5 billion to Y25 billion. The forecast marks a return to profitability for Sumitomo Chemicals, which incurred a Y312 billion net loss in the previous fiscal year. LDPE OUTPUT CUT BY END-MARCH 2025In a separate statement on 29 October, the company announced plans to reduce its low density polyethylene (LDPE) production at Chiba Works by 20,000 tonnes/year, citing declining domestic demand. Operations at a portion of the company’s LDPE facilities at the site will be suspended by March 2025 – the end of its current fiscal year. Sumitomo Chemical has an LDPE plant in Chiba prefecture with a 172,000 tonne/year capacity, according to ICIS Supply and Demand Database. “The company expects this measure, combined with the various rationalization efforts that it has implemented thus far, to lead to improving the overall operating rate of the remaining facilities,” Sumitomo Chemical said. Japan’s LDPE demand “is not anticipated to have significant future growth”, it said, citing a declining population and an ageing society with a low birth rate. Sumitomo Chemical said that it is “accelerating business restructuring as part of its short-term intensive performance improvement measures”. Other measures include improving the company’s product portfolio “to cater to high value-added areas”, as well as working on fixed cost reduction at its remaining facilities, including a joint study with Maruzen Petrochemical to optimize operations of their joint venture Keiyo Ethylene. The Japanese producer said that it “will steadily advance these measures to ensure a V-shaped recovery in fiscal 2024, while also carrying out fundamental structural reforms”. Focus article by Pearl Bantillo ($1 = Y153.3) (adds paragraphs 8-15 with recasts throughout)
30-Oct-2024
Japan's Sumitomo Chemical trims fiscal H1 net loss as sales grow 5%
SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Sumitomo Chemical trimmed its fiscal first-half net loss to Japanese yen (Y) 6.5 billion, aided by about a 5% growth in sales, the Japan-based producer said on Wednesday. in billion yen (Y) Apr-Sept 2024 Apr-Sept 2023 % change Yr-to-March 2025 (revised forecast) Yr-to-March 2024 (actual) Sales revenue 1,241.4 1,186.9 4.6 2,600.0 2,446.9 Core operating profit 29.5 -96.7 – 100.0 -149.0 Operating income 121.2 -133.7 – 180.0 -488.8 Net income -6.5 -76.3 – -25.0 -311.8 Revenues for the period increased on higher selling prices of synthetic resins, methyl methacrylate (MMA) and various industrial chemicals increased due to higher raw material prices, the company said in a statement. Its essential chemicals & plastics segment posted a lower core operating loss of Y36.7 billion, with sales up by 3.3% year on year to Y403 billion, it said. However, it noted that earnings were weighed down by a deterioration of financial performance by its 37.5%-owned affiliate Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. Meanwhile, IT-related chemicals posted a 10% increase in sales to Y224.3 billion, with core operating income more than doubling to Y37.5 billion, on the back of strong demand for display-related materials and processing materials for semiconductors, it said. For the whole of fiscal year ending March 2025, Sumitomo Chemical lowered its sales forecast by Y70 billion to Y2.6 trillion, but raised its net profit forecast by Y5 billion to Y25 billion. The forecasts mark a return to profitability for Sumitomo Chemicals, which had incurred a Y312 billion net loss in the previous fiscal year. ($1 = Y153.3)
30-Oct-2024
UPDATE: China extends five-year ADDs on ethanolamine imports
SINGAPORE (ICIS)–China has extended its antidumping duties (ADD) on imports of ethanolamines from four countries, for another five years from 30 October. The extension was necessary to prevent potential dumping activities from damaging the country's domestic industries, China's Ministry of Commerce said on 29 October 2024. China's ADDs on ethanolamines from the US, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Thailand first came into effect on 29 October 2018. The ADD quantum remains unchanged as below: Country Company ADD rates US The Dow Chemical Company 76.0% US INEOS Americas LLC 97.1% US Huntsman Petrochemical LLC 97.1% US All Others 97.1% Saudi Arabia Saudi Basic Industries Corporation 10.1% Saudi Arabia All Others 27.9% Malaysia PETRONAS CHEMICAL DERIVATIVES SDN BHD/ PETRONAS CHEMICALS MARKETING(LABUAN) LTD 18.3% Malaysia All Others 20.3% Thailand TOC GLYCOL COMPANY LIMITED 37.6% Thailand All Others 37.6% In late October 2023, when the ADD period was due to expire, the ministry announced that it would conduct a year-long review following requests by Chinese participants. (adds table, with recasts throughout) Thumbnail image: At a container terminal at Nantong port in Jiangsu province in east China on 19 October 2024.(Xinhua/Shutterstock)
30-Oct-2024
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