Port Waratah Coal Services' export terminals at Australia's Newcastle port shipped 2.35 million mt of mostly thermal coal to China in March, down 6% from February, the operator said in a report Tuesday. China's offtake represented 26.3% ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, coal shipments
The Northwest European April benzene contract price has been fully settled at Eur1,019/mt or $1,402/mt CIF ARA, market sources said Tuesday. The settlement represents an increase of Eur16/mt and $32/mt from the March contract price of ...
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NYMEX May crude settled $1.84 lower at $99.74/barrel Tuesday on expectations of another build in US crude stockpiles and bearish data from China and Europe. ICE May Brent settled $2.14 lower at $105.62/b. The Brent-WTI spread settled at a ...
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The premium of Indonesian Minas crude to front-month May ICE Brent futures fell to a one-month low of 4 cents/barrel on Tuesday after offers from Chinaoil in the Platts Market on Close assessment process failed to elicit buying interest. ...
The number of businesses indicating they will hire staff in the months ahead has increased for a third consecutive quarter, supporting a view that underlying economic conditions are stable and that confidence is sound in spite of recent ...
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With the global economy on the mend, Taiwan's machinery exports for the first two months of this year totaled US$2.854 billion, up 7.5% from the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics by Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
Tags: taiwan, Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
Carpet exports from Turkey surged 8.5 percent to US$ 355.5 million, during the first two months of 2014, as per the data released by the Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters’ Association (ITKIB). According to the ITKIB data, ...
Tags: Carpet Exports, Apparel, Textile
Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has stated that pre-commissioning has started at the construction site of the coal dust injection utility for the West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant of Evraz (EVRAZ ZSMK). The company ...
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According to the data provided by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), in February this year Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 863,397 units, increasing by 57,186 units or ...
UK-based 'wholefood' breakfast cereal brand Jordans has launched its Crispy Oat Clusters and Crunchy Oat Granola across Australia following a trial in 2013. Jordans was founded in 1972 by Bill and David Jordan, but Holme Mills, the home ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The CFR China phthalic anhydride market has plunged to a three-year low amid weakness in China's real estate market, dragging South East Asian PA prices down with it, market sources said this week. PA is used to make dyes and is also a ...
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Annual inflation in the euro area is expected to be 0.5 percent for March, down compared to the 0.7 percent recorded in February, according to flash estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. Flash ...
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In February this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.3 percent from January and rose by 6.9 percent from February 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, crude steel, Iron
With approval of the Supervisory Board of the company, the Management Board of FAST Casualwear AG has resolved on carrying out a second capital increase in the current financial year. The capital increase will be carried out against ...
Tags: Casualwear, footwear, apparel