Asphalt Weekly Monitor
14 May 2021
- Retail asphalt and flux pricing mostly flat on the East Coast, with some adjustments.
- East Coast asphalt wholesale pricing moved up, with flux barge pricing flat this week.
- Midwest wholesale prices were steady this week for asphalt and flux. River barge traffic was stalled at Memphis due to a cracked bridge support, but it has now resumed.
- Selling prices at Midwest retail markets were generally steady.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt prices steady, with flux pricing firming in some areas.
- The wholesale asphalt and flux price bands on the Gulf Coast are unchanged.
- Rocky Mountain rack selling price assessments were steady in all but a few locations.
- Rockies wholesale prices were static for May supply.
- West Coast markets were steady this week for both Pacific Northwest and California.
- In western Canada, Saskatchewan and Manitoba market prices went up this week.
- In eastern Canada, both Quebec and Ontario market prices were flat this week.
- Oil prices were down this week for all benchmark grades.
- The Colonial Pipeline restarted, but much of the southeast US remains fuels challenged.
