After growing steadily between 2002 and 2007, the total weight of goods handled in maritime ports in the EU27 remained nearly stable at 3.9 billion tonnes in 2008. It then fell by 12% to 3.4 bn tonnes in 2009 as the result of the economic ...
Tags: Maritime Port, economy
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthive, in the proposal presented, to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, has made submission for increasing the garment exports to US $16 billion in 2013-14. The meeting was ...
Tags: AEPC, garment exports, garment
Prompt gas contracts on Continental European hubs recouped early day losses by midday Friday as two unplanned outages at Norway's gas fields, which send gas to the UK and the Continent, cut gas flows and sparked supply worries, one trader ...
Tags: Euro Gas, Fuel Supply, oil
The first estimate for the euro area (EA17) trade in goods balance with the rest of the world in January 2013 gave a 3.9 billion euro deficit, compared with -9.1 bn in January 2012. The December 2012 balance was +10.8 bn, compared with +8.0 ...
Tags: Euro Area Deficit, economy, EU27 exports
ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has signed a service contract valued at $260 million with A/S Norske Shell. The contract, for a period of 9 years, requires ABB to provide integrated service and support solutions ...
Tags: ABB, Major Oil Company, Electrical
China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe), a regular gathering in petroleum and petrochemical industry and a high-quality exhibition which gets the authentication from UFI in Mainland China, ...
Tags: Textile, Cippe2013, Petroleum&Petrochemical
According to the latest 'Bi-Monthly Stainless Steel Briefing March 2013' report issued by Germany-based service centre Damstahl, in 2012 European stainless crude steel production amounted to 7.4 million mt, falling two percent compared to ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Comfort is the keyword of Stressless ® armchairs, made entirely in Norway by Ekorness ®, a leader company which, since 1934, is specialized in the design, manufacture and marketing of armchairs and sofas. Each chair has its own ...
Tags: Stressless Living, furniture, furnishing
New Zealand took the top spot, followed by Norway and Sweden Canada is the fourth-best country in the world to be a working woman, according to The Economist’s glass-ceiling index release. Using data from the Organization for ...
Cars sales have been falling in Western Europe as yet another economic downturn confirms expectations that the region’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis will be a lengthy process. However, while demand for cars declines, ...
The Interconnector [IUK] pipeline is nominated to ship a "massive record high" of gas from Belgium to the UK Tuesday, Platts' unit Bentek Energy said, following supply disruptions which drove a large price premium for UK gas Monday. ...
Tags: Interconnector, pipeline, gas
India’s fast-growing cement industry can reduce its carbon emissions by nearly half by the middle of the century, according to a technology roadmap issued today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Business Council ...
Tags: IEA, WBCSD, Indian Cement Industry
You’ve got to hand it to the IT wizards at The Pirate Bay–they certainly know how to have fun with their infrastructure set-up. Echoing a prank from 2007, the Pirate Bay on Monday claimed the site was now being hosted in North ...
UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
Tags: gas, natural gas, oil pipeline system
The world's largest message-in-a-bottle will be released to the ocean currents outside of Tenerife on March 13th. The Norwegian soft drink Solo is behind the project that also involves polar explorer Jarle Andhøy and the owner of ...