The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its annual container stevedoring monitoring report, which highlights an improved performance within the industry. Average stevedoring prices for the industry fell for the ...
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The Cruise’s popularity as a vacation option is ever-increasing. The trend has led to bigger and better ships, regularly reaching mammoth proportions to ferry eager tourists to paradise and back. Bigger ships mean bigger ports, ...
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Air freight volumes were up slightly in September according to the IATA, with freight tonne kilometres (FTK) 1.0% higher compared to a year ago. This was a small improvement on August, when volumes were broadly stable year to year, however, ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has launched its Half-Bridge Evaluation Board, which demonstrates ...
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Demand for imported crude, petroleum bitumen blend and straight-run fuel oil by independent teapot refineries in China's eastern Shandong province was relatively weak over this week, given narrowing refining margins on lower oil prices in ...
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Long Range 1 tanker rates are soaring in Europe as vessels are delayed due to high storage levels in Europe, and the busy naphtha arbitrage to the East is rapidly eating into the available tonnage. LR1 rates on the Northwest Europe to ...
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The global sales value of fiber optic circulators in optical communications will grow at an average annual rate of 8.4 percent, from this year’s value of almost $230m reaching $313m by 2017. These are the conclusions reached in a ...
Investment in 100G optical communications systems worldwide during 2013 was “breathtaking”, according to a new market report published today by Infonetics Research. Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at the company ...
According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the wavelength division multiplexer or WDM market grew 10 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 reaching a new record revenue level of $2.6 billion. The ...
Market research firm IHS Infonetics has published new vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its second quarter 2015 IHS Infonetics Optical Network Hardware report. According to the report, global optical network hardware ...
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Crude loading at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisk was halted Thursday due to a storm, which national pipeline operator Transneft expects to prevent loading until Sunday at the earliest. "Currently three tankers are waiting in ...
* Stocks climb at EMO Dry Bulk Terminal and OBA Bulk Amsterdam * Low Rhine river levels impact barging from ARA ports Four delivery terminals in Northwest Europe's Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp trading hub had combined coal stocks of ...
India’s decision to remove stock limit exemptions for pulses held by Indian importers amidst rising prices of the commodity has become a cause of concern for the US. On October 18, India cut down the permissible limit of pulse ...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council has recently passed the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), bringing the Agreement into the WTO Agreement, and opened the protocol for ...
The national teleconference on foreign trade was held in Beijing on February 26, 2015. Vice Premier Wang Yang attended and addressed the meeting. Also attending and addressing the meeting was Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng. Gao said ...
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