The World Bank will fund infrastructure projects worth $245 million to revamp facilities in Uganda's Albertine oil region, ahead of first oil production in the country, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement Thursday. ...
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China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in April of the current year coal shipments by Chinese railways amounted to 178 million mt, down 0.3 percent year on year, while in the January-April period this ...
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Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
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Strong regional multi-stakeholder partnerships will be the key for a dynamic, flexible and growth-driven petrochemicals industry, said industry experts at the sixth Supply Chain conference, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals ...
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Australia's peak body for rail has commended the Victorian Government on its budget commitment of up to $11 billion to construct the Melbourne Rail Link – a project it says will transform the city's entire transport network making it ...
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In the January-April period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - remained stable year on year at 395.8 million mt, according ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, coal, fertilizers
Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that it has set up a system to manufacture and ship 150 meter long rails, the world longest rails for railroads, at its Yawata Works. NSSMC's 150 meter ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
In the first quarter of the current year, direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 2.14 million mt, down 2.8 percent year on year and constituting the lowest first quarter volume the ...
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According to figures issued by Russian Railways, in March this year direct deliveries of cast iron, rolled steel, pipes and semi-finished products to locomotive, car repair and car production plants in Russia (including dual-purpose ...
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Category. Applicants for Halal certification are broadly categorized under THREE categories: Abattoir: Islamic Halal Zabiha (Shariah compliant slaughter) including Beaf (buffalo), Mutton (goat & sheep), Chicken. Manufactured / ...
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China's Ministry of Transportation (MOT) announced that the overall volume of freight transported on China's railways, roads and waterways in the January-February period of the current year amounted to 6.82 billion mt, up 7.4 percent year ...
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Canadian railways carried 25.3 million metric tons of freight in January, down 2.7 percent from the same month last year. The drop in shipments occurred despite the strong growth in traffic received from the United States. Non-intermodal ...
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In the January-February period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - increased by 0.3 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Russian Railways
The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) of India has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bogota Chamber of Commerce of Colombia with the objective of facilitating bilateral cooperation between the two countries ...
Tags: Handicraft Production, Handicraft
The China government has set a 2020 target production value of CNY1 trillion (US$164 billion) for all types of LED products, with 70% of the value to come from LED lighting, according to Digitimes Research. The target production value for ...
Tags: LED Production, Lighting