US-based insurer MetLife, Bank for Investment & Development of Vietnam (BIDV), and Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Insurance Corporation (BIC), have reached an agreement to form a life insurance joint venture (JV) in Vietnam. ...
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
DNV GL Group announces FutureShip ECO-Assistant 4.0 adds new features including new fuel consumption calculator, to award-winning trim optimisation to Tuesday, Sep 17, 2013 The latest version of ECO-Assistant, the trim optimisation tool ...
Bridgestone is a global leader in the tyre industry. Members of the Bridgestone Group supply a vast range of tyres in the Americas, in Europe, in Japan, in every region on the planet. Customer expectations of tyre performance vary greatly ...
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Clariant was included in the European Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI Europe). In taking this step the analysts of RobecoSAM have confirmed that when it comes to sustainability, Clariant is among the leading companies in the chemical ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
Tags: MX Firms
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) will host a fishing tournament at the 2014 OTR Conference scheduled for Feb. 19-22 at the Marco Island Marriott Resort & Golf Club in Marco Island, Fla. The fishing tournament will take place on Feb. ...
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Northline, a transport and logistics operator that built its business mainly on operations in northern Australia, is investing in a new $24 million Sydney transport and logistics facility with work now under way and due for completion in ...
Following the transfer of ownership of the first 9 vessels to the Chinese company ICBC Financial Leasing ("ICBCL") as part of a 51 vessel sale and bareboat commitment and the payment of US$144 million, BOURBON announces that the ten-year ...
Tags: Transportation, Service, logistics
Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded the contract to supply the design and an integrated solution for a new large platform supply vessel (PSV). The ship will operate primarily ...
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The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
Colfax Corporation, a global manufacturer of gas- and fluidhandling and fabrication technology products announced that Daniel A. Pryor has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Mr. Pryor joined ...
The US-Asia isomer-grade mixed xylenes arbitrage has shut on paper after being open for about a month, hit by higher US prices overnight Tuesday, Platts data showed Wednesday. Asian isomer-MX CFR Taiwan was assessed at $1,297/mt Tuesday, ...
Tags: Chemicals
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has invited Claire Perry, the Devizes MP who is Prime Minister David Cameron's 'advisor on childhood' to dinner - so that he can tell her how wrong her plan for internet web filtering is. Perry is the driving ...
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The NSC Group has commissioned the voluntary "Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)" certification of its entire fleet from Germanischer Lloyd (GL). GL verifies the globally valid EEDI environmental and efficiency standard for vessels and ...
Tags: Transportation, Service