Monthly price marker, offering end-user centric FOB / CIF / CFR pricing information for prompt deliveries of cement and clinker.

Based on a continuous dialog with market participants and using a formal methodology, the “Cement and Clinker Price Assessment” product series offers prompt cargo (next 30-60 day deliveries) pricing insights, covering four distinct cement and clinker price markers.

The new offerings include monthly updates for prices, cement market news and an overview of key developments that are crucial for those involved in the cement and clinker trade to understand.

CW Research’s leading role in the global cement and clinker sector forms the underpinning for the monthly price assessment. The monthly price markers are grouped into three products, each covering distinct price markers:

Mediterranean Basin:

• Med Basin bulk Portland clinker and cement FOB

Persian Gulf - Arabian Sea and East Africa:

• Persian Gulf - Arabian Sea bulk Portland clinker and cement FOB
• East Africa bulk Portland cement CFR

Americas:

• US West Coast bulk Portland cement CIF
• Caribbean / US Gulf bulk Portland cement CIF/FOB

The monthly updates, available as annual subscription in individual or corporate license forms, are distributed electronically. Each report product’s monthly update contains actual pricing for prompt cargoes for the covered price markets as well as market color from the CW Research analysts’ on- going interactions with cement and clinker traders, buyers, exporters, producers and other stakeholders.

The price assessments “Cement and clinker price markers” complement CW Research’s other price assessment series for tradable commodities, including the “India Petcoke CFR” price assessments.