Africa's increasing air travel demand and biofuel production potential, alongside the Middle East's strategic SAF investments, position both regions as key players in advancing global aviation decarbonization efforts.

Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our January survey.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its MB-PB-0097 lead 99.97% ingot warrant premium, in-whs US price assessment.

After a 2024 marked by calls for trade defense measures against “predatory and unfair” imports, the Latin American steel sector should see a rise in such measures in 2025, industry experts told Fastmarkets.

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback on the pricing methodology for aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Germany and ddp Eastern Europe ahead of the definitive period of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which starts in January 2026.

Read more about how we expect a modest increase in 2025 levels of global crude steel production over 2024.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its assessments for MB-STE-0829, Russia welded ERW linepipe API 5L X65 US$/tonne; MB-STE-0830, Russia welded LSAW linepipe API 5L X65 US$/tonne; MB-STE-0810, Russia Round billet seamless (fob) Rub/tonne; MB-STE-0811, Russia seamless OCTG casing J/K 55 (btc connection) distrbutor FCA Rub/tonne; and MB-STE-0812, Russia seamless Linepipe API 5L X65 distrbutor FCA Rub/tonne.

No feedback was received during the consultation period and therefore no changes will be made to the methodologies at this stage. This consultation sought to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes […]

Fastmarkets has published a series of renewable diesel price assessments that had previously failed to appear in our pricing database because of a technical issue.

No feedback was received during the consultation period and therefore no changes will be made to the methodologies at this stage. This consultation, sought to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes […]