With global container shipping costs coming down, European polymer markets are seeing offers of material from the Far East rise, adding pressure to prices in an already oversupplied environment.

S&P Global Commodity Insights petrochemicals editors Abdulaziz Ehtaiba, Hui Heng and Daniel Pelosi, and containers editor George Griffiths talk about the logistical landscape and the fallout it is causing in the polymer markets.

Price assessments for this episode:

• PP Homo Inj FD NWE Spot Eur/mt - AALUR00
• PP Inj CFR FE Asia - PHBIF00
• Platts Container Rate 1 North Asia-UK Continent $/FEU - PCR0100
• HDPE Film CFR Far East Asia - AATYE00

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