China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
Tags: oil demand, fuel oil
Thanks to tireless promotion by top Chinese leaders, the country's railway industry has seen another year of good harvest in overseas markets in 2015, culminating in the launch of a railway project in Asia and the start of another in Europe ...
A group of British marine scientists are digging into the ocean's "twilight zone" to understand the processes involved in carbon transport in the oceans. As CRI's Victor Ning reports, the scientists are hoping that the research will lead ...
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Chinese icebreaker "Xuelong," meaning Snow Dragon in English, is scheduled to set off on Saturday from Shanghai for the country's 32nd scientific expedition to Antarctica. The icebreaker, carrying a 277-member expedition team, will cover ...
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A Chinese biotechnological company announced on Sunday it has developed the world's first 3D blood vessel bio-printer, which makes it possible to produce personalized functional organs. Sichuan Revotek Co., Ltd. based in Chengdu, capital ...
Tags: 3D Blood Vessel, Bio-printer
Chinese scientists have found that sediment transport in Yellow River was reduced mainly due to anthropogenic changes. The Yellow River was once the world's largest carrier of fluvial sediment, with 90 percent coming from the Loess ...
Tags: Human Activity, Yellow River
U.S. space agency NASA said Tuesday it has suspended the planned launch of a Mars lander called InSight in March 2016 due to unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a French-built seismological instrument. "The bottom line is that we're ...
Tags: NASA, Mars Lander, Instrument Leak
Russia and India vowed on Thursday to enhance military, nuclear and anti-terror cooperation in a bid to promote their "privileged strategic partnership." "Large serial production of anti-ship missiles for India has begun," Russian ...
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Customs staff in Shanghai have seized more than 80,000 pieces of smuggled mink fur and detained 13 suspects. The fur was packed in 671 boxes of fiber, customs said on Thursday. The suspects confessed that they had illegally transport ...
Construction of a railway linking China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will start in the coming year. The President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev said the project will boost economic growth in his country, as it will provide the landlocked ...
Tags: China's Rail, Construction
South African brewery Kruger Brau has installed a semi-automatic canning system machine from Cask Brewing Systems to package its beers in aluminum cans. The new micro-canning equipment will be capable of producing more than 40 cases per ...
Tags: Kruger Brau, semi-automatic canning system machine, Packaging
Zebra has released technology designed to enhance productivity in the Australian manufacturing and transport and logistics sectors. The new Windows 10-ready VC80 is said to virtually extend any PC-based application to material-handling ...
Tags: Zebra, Windows 10-ready VC80, Service
PACCAR Leasing Company (PacLease) has rolled out Trimble’s Truck4U telematics system across its new truck rental and leasing fleet in Australia. PacLease launched its Australian Truck Rental and Leasing Services division earlier ...
Tags: PACCAR Leasing Company, Truck4U telematics system, Service
Instead of a traditional Christmas party, over 160 members of Australia's packaging, processing machinery and supply chain and logistics associations spent a day packing a record 1250 hampers for Foodbank to distribute to those in need. ...
Tags: Australian Institute of Packaging, The Foodbank Hampers project
Starting today, logistics employees at Audi will no longer have to fetch the required goods from the material shelves. Instead, the goods will come to them fully automatically on driverless transport systems (DTS). Audi is currently ...
Tags: Audi, driverless transport systems, Auto