Northwest European gasoline refining profit margins edged slightly lower to $5.19 a barrel on Thursday as weak export economics weighed.

A total of 3,000 metric tons of E5 gasoline barges traded as Vitol and Litasco sold to TotalEnergies and Gunvor.

A further 8,000 tons of Eurobob E10 traded as TotalEnergies sold Varo and Shell.

Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by over 5% in the week to March 20 to 1.4 million tons, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed.

EU and UK gasoline and blending component exports are on track to reach 771,000 barrels per day in March, according to Kpler data, down from 893,000 bpd in February.
Source: Reuters