The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has welcomed the release Infrastructure Australia (IA) Audit Report, describing it as a timely and directional insight into Australia’s infrastructure requirements. The inquiry by the ...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has expressed disappointment in the Federal Government’s 2015-16 Budget, which announced the lion’s share of transport infrastructure funding to go toward roads, and no new money for ...
Tags: Rail Industry, rail infrastructure
Food retail in Australia is among the better-performing retail sectors contributing to only a modest rise is sales figures in February 2015. The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said the seasonally adjusted rise (0.7 percent ...
Tags: Food Retail, food retail sector
Google has announced it is preparing to trial its Project Ara smartphones later this year, but to get in on the modular action you’re going to have to move to Puerto Rico. At the second Project Ara developer’s conference (via ...
Tags: Google, Consumer Electronics, Phones
Shoppers to spend $45 billion in pre-Christmas retail sales Peak retail industry body the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has found retailers will be able to count on some steady improvement in retail sales over the Christmas ...
Tags: Pre-Christmas Retail, Agriculture
Happy Family, a toddler food company in the US, has expanded its product offerings with the introduction of new Happy Tot Grow & Shine Organic Toddler Milk. Designed to meet certain dietary needs of a young child, Happy Tot Grow & Shine ...
Tags: toddler food, Toddler Milk
Happy Family, a premium organic food brand for babies, has launched Happy Tot Grow & Shine Organic Toddler Milk. Happy Tot Grow & Shine Organic Toddler Milk claims to provide an additional source of vitamins and minerals to help grow ...
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The NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian have signed the operations contract for Sydney’s North West Rail Link, said to be Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project and first ...
Tags: Sydney Rail Link, Mike Baird, Service
The over-the-counter price for 8,800 Btu/lb Powder River Basin coal dipped again Monday, as rail issues overhang the Western market. Mines in BNSF Railway's service area, in the northern reach of the basin, are having trouble guaranteeing ...
Tags: physical market, Western market
European styrene production margins, which appeared to be rising after an explosion June 3 during maintenance at Shell-BASF's Ellba joint venture in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, are falling again, Platts data shows. Styrene's premium over ...
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European refining margins have recovered from their lows of last month, driven by a pick-up in products markets, especially jet fuel and gasoline, following run cuts throughout the region, according to traders. "Demand for products ...
Tags: Gasoline, pick-up in products, jet fuel
The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Northwest European spot styrene values rallied $45/mt or 3% Wednesday morning in reaction to the fire that broke out at Ellba's styrene monomer/propylene oxide plant at Moerdijk, the Netherlands. Styrene end-users and consumers stepped ...
Tags: spot styrene, specific material
Styrolution is seeking to expand polystyrene margins following the settlement of the June styrene contract price, the company said late Monday. With the Northwest European styrene contract agreed at Eur1,360/mt FOB ARA ($1,850/mt), down ...
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Benzene production margins in Europe have sunk to their lowest level in the past six months following a continuous drop in spot benzene prices over the last four weeks, Platts data showed. Benzene's premium to naphtha dropped to ...
Tags: Benzene, Benzene production