Taiwan’s base oils exports stayed unusually low in November, with shipments to China almost grinding to a halt.Total exports of 9,300t in November rose from 6,600t the previous month, government data showed.The volume was down from more than 40,000t in September, the month before scheduled plant maintenance work began on Taiwan’s sole base oils unit.The unit was scheduled to resume normal operations in first-half December.Total base oils exports of 377,200t in the first eleven months of the year were down 16pc from 448,070t during the same period last year.Exports had exceeded year-earlier levels in the first nine months of the year.Base oils exports of less than 30t to China in November were the lowest in more than eight years and down from typical levels of close to 20,000 t/month in the first nine months of the year.China is usually the destination for most of Taiwan’s base oils exports during any plant maintenance work, when availability is much tighter..Taiwan’s Oct base oils exports fall
Taiwan’s base oils exports stayed unusually low in November, with shipments to China almost grinding to a halt.Total exports of 9,300t in November rose from 6,600t the previous month, government data showed.The volume was down from more than 40,000t in September, the month before scheduled plant maintenance work began on Taiwan’s sole base oils unit.The unit was scheduled to resume normal operations in first-half December.Total base oils exports of 377,200t in the first eleven months of the year were down 16pc from 448,070t during the same period last year.Exports had exceeded year-earlier levels in the first nine months of the year.Base oils exports of less than 30t to China in November were the lowest in more than eight years and down from typical levels of close to 20,000 t/month in the first nine months of the year.China is usually the destination for most of Taiwan’s base oils exports during any plant maintenance work, when availability is much tighter..Taiwan’s Oct base oils exports fall
