The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported a continued modest improvement in air cargo markets in August. August air freight demand was up 3.6% on the previous year, which is considerably better than year-to-date ...
Tags: Service, air freight, Transport
Although there is no firm yardstick to gauge its real impact, China Investment Corp has in many ways been the most representative face of Chinese investment in Europe. Apart from its regular activities such as equity and other investments, ...
Tags: Sovereign Wealth Fund, economy, China
The global output of textile manufacturing sector increased by 4 percent year-on-year during the second quarter of 2013, according to the 'World Manufacturing Production: Statistics for Quarter II, 2013', released by the Statistics Unit of ...
Tags: Textile
Chinese exporters will continue to face increasing trade frictions in the second half of 2013 and in 2014 amid escalating trade protectionism moves and an uncertain economic recovery, said a report released on Monday by ...
Tags: trade frictions, economic recovery
Pinnacle Machine Tool Co., Ltd., founded in central Taiwan back in 1976, has released a series of feature-laden five-axis (X, Y, Z, plus B and C axes) CNC machining centers to cater to high-end manufacturers looking for machines that are ...
Tags: CNC Machining Centers
The prospects for the world's major developed economies improved further in July according to a monthly leading indicator of growth compiled by the OECD, while emerging markets continued to lose steam. The Paris-based Organization for ...
China's exports rose 7.2 percent year on year to US$190.73 billion in August, 2.1 percentage points higher than the 5.1 percent increase in July, the General Administration of Customs announced Sunday. Expanding exports signals that the ...
Tags: Economy Recovers
Ever-Glory International Group, a leading apparel supply chain manager and retailer based in China, reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Total sales for the quarter were $59.1 million, an increase of ...
Despite China's slowing economic growth, the retail industry in the world's second-largest economy will maintain sustainable growth in the medium and long term, commerce officials said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the industry is undergoing a ...
Tags: Retail Industry, economic growth
At the recent 74th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held in Paris, participants from OECD and non-OECD economies discussed the prospects for improved growth in global steel demand, future ...
Tags: Steel Committee, steel, Mineral
China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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Few advanced economies can measure up to the potential of emerging markets, which have been forecast to exhibit the fastest growth rates for food and non-alcoholic beverages over the next five years, according to a new report from global ...
Tags: Markets, Agriculture&Food, Drink
India has raised the import duty on a range of major polymers, namely polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride, from 5% to 7.5% effective Thursday, a source from Reliance Industries said. "This is a logical move because it gives ...
Tags: APIC, Polymer Import
International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in the latest World Economic Outlook the global economy's growth would fall down to 3.3%, reducing by 0.2% than the prediction of January; global economy in 2014 would grow by 4%, remaining the ...
Tags: IMF, Global Economy's Growth
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2013 and 2014, worldsteel Economics Committee revised down its global apparent steel consumption growth forecast to 2.9 percent from its October 2012 ...
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