Archirodon Construction is building a new general cargo terminal (GCT) at Oman s Port of Salalah, leading to a number of major investors expressing interest in shipping dry and liquid bulk commodities from the new facility. The project, ...
Tags: Raysut Cement, Salalah, Terminal Expansion
Buying organic bulk produce, grains, and beans and becoming your own chef will save you money by not selecting processed foods packaged at higher prices. Those only make you trade health for convenience. You're paying for the packaging, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine
Austria-based packaging products manufacturer Starlinger has introduced a new 'Easy Open' feature for its PP*STAR pinch bottom bags. The new feature allows the bags to hold large quantities of heavy content without tearing or breaking ...
Tags: Pinch Bottom Bags, Packaging
The largest tanker carrier in North America, Kenan Advantage Group (KAG), based in North Canton, OH, has purchased one of Canada’s largest bulk carriers RTL-Westcan Group. RTL-Westcan runs tanks through western and northern ...
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According to a release from the Lake Carriers' Association, US-flag Great Lakes freighters (lakers) carried 9.8 million tons of dry-bulk cargo in October, an increase of 14.4 percent compared to a year ago. The total was also slightly ahead ...
Tags: Great Lakes, Mineral
China's fuel oil imports in August fell to a near five-year low of 1.17 million mt amid continued weak demand from both the bunker market and independent teapot refiners, according to data released late Monday by the General Administration ...
Prices drifted sideways in the delivered South China cargo market for thermal coal Friday in the absence of any significant buying interest from China, and sellers pondered the next move in a buoyant freight market, market sources said. ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Brazilian government enacted a new law by the end of July, the country's anti-dumping has been modified to make it more consistent with the current environment and more transparent. The new regulation replaces the 1995 publication of the ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
While there was a significant increase in the TEU throughput of Sydney Ports in the 2012-13 financial year, most of the increase was accounted for by empty containers. June 2013 total container trade reached over 172,600 TEU, up by 12.6% ...
Tags: Sydney's Ports, empty containers
Global thermal coal prices are unlikely to recover this year unless Australian coal producers lower production or an unexpected event rattles the seaborne market and sends prices north, industry experts attending the Coaltrans Asia ...
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Diana Shipping Inc. announces time charter contract for M/V Baltimore with RWE Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, today announced ...
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US-flag Great Lakes freighters carried 2.2 million tons of dry-bulk cargo in March, a decrease of 7 percent compared to 2012.? However, the fleet's March float was marginally ahead of the month's 5-year average. Iron ore shipments in US ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Diana Shipping Inc. announces the acquisition of a Capesize dry bulk carrier Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, today announced ...
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India remained stable Friday, with a downward bias, as support from the South American grain season began to weaken, sources said. "Vessels ...
Tags: Panamax, Coal, Freight Rates
Vale said Tuesday that it will complete its first iron ore shipment to ArcelorMittal using a Valemax vessel to be discharged at the port of Rotterdam. The Berge Jaya, chartered by Vale, is scheduled to berth at Rotterdam's EMO dry bulk ...
Tags: iron ore vessel, iron ore, ore carrier