The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for October 2013.Intermodal traffic in October totaled 1,317,601 containers and trailers, up 6.8 percent (84,120 units) compared with October 2012. The ...
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The Pennsylvania Governor's office announced Thursday that US Steel Corp. is one of 33 recipients of the administration's Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants.The company will receive $52,618 from the state Department of Environmental ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending November 8, the US rig count increased by 12 to 1,754, following a four-rig increase the previous week.However, the rig count is still down by 52 from 1,806 rigs during the same week a year ...
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France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013. According to Vallourec's report, in the third quarter this year the company registered a net profit of ...
Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 1.8 billion ($295 million) on November 13. The issue will be its second short-term bond ...
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Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14. Accordingly, in the second quarter ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in September this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South?Africa decreased by 5.2 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in September this year the country's manufacturing output fell by 3.3 percent compared to the same month of 2012, while the seasonally adjusted manufacturing ...
Russia's largest steelmaker NLMK Group and Russia's leading pipe manufacturer OMK Group have announced that they have signed a new agreement on long-term cooperation, renewing their contract for supply of slabs for the period up to 2016 ...
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In October of the current year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.5 percent year on year and was unchanged month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Meanwhile, in October ...
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013. In the third quarter, Kardemir recorded a ...
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In October this year, Germany's crude steel output increased for the second straight month year on year, rising by two percent to 3.76 million metric tons, and also increasing by 4.15 percent compared to September, according to the ...
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In September this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry decreased by 0.8 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal ...
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In October this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 0.86 percent month on month and 10.3 percent year on year, with the growth rate in question down 0.1 percentage point compared to the year-on-year increase ...
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In the January-October period this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 6.8693 trillion ($1.13 billion), up 19.2 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.5 percentage points compared to the year-on-year ...
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