U.S. Gulf Coast crude prices climbed sharply this week after fog-related port closures slowed the nation’s crude imports and as supplies rose at the U.S. storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, traders, and analysts said on Wednesday. Buyers bid up U.S. coastal grades like Light Louisiana Sweet and Mars Sour after imports fell to the lowest in more than two decades last week, the result of several-days-long Gulf Coast port closures, refinery maintenance, and slumping Canadian crude-by-rail shipments, traders said. Coastal grades were also driven higher by expectations of rising supplies at Cushing, which has widened the spread between U.S. crude and global benchmark Brent as unexpected refinery issues add to already high inventories. Light Louisiana Sweet (LLS), a coastal crude […]