European diesel strength opens rare arbitrage from US West Coast

In this podcast, Platts European Marketscan editors, Tim Worledge and Elza Turner, discuss why the European diesel market continues to pull product in globally with the US West Coast the latest location to send diesel trans-Atlantic; and examine how recent movements from the US Gulf and Atlantic coasts and a healthy arbitrage from Asia are expected to deliver around 1.5 million tons of product into Europe through November.

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Created: November 19, 2008

European Marketscan provides essential coverage of the refined products marketplace. It features key price assessments for the north west European and Mediterranean cargo markets, and the ARA barge market, including gasoil/diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha, fuel oil and feedstocks.

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