In November this year, new vehicle registrations (including passenger cars and commercial vehicles) in the German market increased by 1.06 month on month and by 3.01 percent year on year, according to the data released by the German ...
Tags: vehicle, transportation
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in October this year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 10.59 billion ($1.01 billion), increasing by 4.7 percent from ...
Tags: base metal, metallurgy
Brazil's motor vehicle output in November this year decreased by 10.7 percent from the previous month and by eight percent year on year to 289,633 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Tags: export, Brazil, motor vehicle, output
On December 4, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in November this year its outputs of pig iron, crude steel and finished steel amounted to 805,800 mt, 859,700 mt and 800,900 mt ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
In November of the current year, China's finished steel exports amounted to 5.00 million mt, down 70,000 mt month on month and down 2.53 percent year on year, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on December 8. In the ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy, export
Iran produced 50.25 million tons of cement in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (started March 21). The figure indicates a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the corresponding figure of last year, which was 49.16 ...
Tags: Cement Output, Iran, Construction News
In November this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 7.75 percent year on year and decreased by 14.61 compared to October to $1.33 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of ...
Tags: iron, steel, metallurgy
According to the statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in October this year, exports of iron and steel scrap from the US amounted to 1.32 million mt, decreasing 14.85 percent from September and down 10.09 ...
Tags: iron, steel, metallurgy
South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 6.22 million mt of coal in November, down 14.4 percent from 7.27 million mt in October and decreasing by ...
According to a report released by the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), in the first half of this year, demand for steel in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries increased 17 percent year on year. Among ...
Tags: ASEAN, steel demand, steel, steel imports
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a contract with Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) to provide Project Engineering and Management Services for the Mina Al Ahmadi, Mina Abdullah and ...
Tags: Petrochemical News, AMEC
It is reported that Korean POSCO Research Institute (Posri) recently predicted that 2014 Korea steel demand will be based on moderate growth this year, 51.2 million tons estimated in the year increased only on the basis of 1%, about 51.7 ...
Tags: steel, steel demand, Korean, export
The 2014 outlook for thermal, renewable and oil and gas projects is stable, according to a Fitch Ratings report. 'Increasingly, natural gas is driving the North American energy sector. As gas is the current fuel on the margin and ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, renewable Energy
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the country's exports of hot rolled coils (HRC) totaled 65,803 tons in October, slumping by 34% year on year. In October, Italy was the largest importer of the ...
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...