Last Friday, Chinese buyers purchased at least 13 cargoes (0.8Mt) of new-crop U.S. soybeans, bringing total 2026/27 season purchases to around 5Mt.
China is back in the U.S. soybean market—and so is long-haul grain freight demand
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Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East Gulf are reshaping methanol and glycol trade flows. But what do these changes mean for chemical tanker utilisation?