Sovcomflot tanker Viktor Bakaev completes East to West Northern Sea Route voyage Wednesday. On 28 October 2013, at 12:20 p.m. Moscow time, the SCF Group (Sovcomflot) tanker Viktor Bakaev passed Cape Zhelaniya, thus completing her transit ...
Tags: Transportation, service
At least one major steelmaker is making preparations based on rampant chatter in the US market that ThyssenKrupp is poised to sell its Alabama rolling mill (possibly including its Brazilian slab operations) to a triad of ArcelorMittal, ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
Google has collaborated with Be Green Packaging to develop and manufacture a new plant fiber tray for its upcoming version of the Chromebook laptop. The internet giant has joined forces with the recyclable packaging products ...
Tags: Google, Laptop Packaging
Some of the changes that can be expected in the next edition of Part L of the Building Regulations have been announced at a launch event hosted by BRE in Watford. At the event, it was confirmed that the minimum luminaire initial efficacy ...
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
New data protection laws intended to protect citizens' privacy, which could see internet companies forced to pay out up to €100m (£85m) in fines if they fail to comply, have been given the go ahead by Members of the European ...
Tags: Protection Laws, MEPs
The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft form of a cyber security framework that is intended to help critical infrastructure owners and operators reduce cyber security risks. ...
Tags: Cyber Security
Hershey, a US-headquartered chocolate manufacturer, has achieved Zero-Waste-to-Landfill (ZWL) status at two of its facilities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Robinson, Illinois. With this development, the company now has six plants in the ...
Tags: Hershey Plants, chocolate
The Ontario Trucking Association is urging the provincial Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to reestablish a special committee dedicated to finding ways to encourage faster clean-up of highway collisions and get traffic in vital GTA ...
Tags: Truck, Transportation, Auto
Foolproof Brewing, a producer of hand-crafted beers, has partnered with Northeast Beverage, a Connecticut-based independent beverage distributor, to expand the distribution of its beers across Connecticut from 28 October 2013. The Rhode ...
French car maker PSA Peugeot-Citroen is in talks to divest stake to Chinese partner Dongfeng and the French state, in order to raise as much as EUR3bn in a capital increase. The company plans to conclude a draft agreement with state-owned ...
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SABMiller plc today provides an update on trading during the six months ended 30 September 2013. The calculation of the organic growth rates excludes the impact of acquisitions and disposals on net producer revenue and volumes. Alan ...
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American beer company New Belgium Brewing has entered into agreements with nine wholesale partners to distribute its beer across Ohio from 16 December 2013. The company's new wholesale partners include Superior Beverage Group; Heidelberg ...
Tags: Belgium Brewing, Beer Distribution
Book balance of investments made by insurance companies in equity assets is required to be not higher than 30% of total assets by the end of the previous quarter, compared with not higher than 25% in the past, according to a draft ...
Tags: Insurers'Investment, insurance, Service
EU local and regional authorities want the EU "to urgently introduce mandatory environmental impact assessments for all shale gas and oil projects," the EU Committee of the Regions said Thursday. The committee is the EU's assembly of ...