Low-sulfur crude grades in the North Sea have dropped to more than four-month lows on differentials versus Dated Brent on pressure from competing grades in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, Norwegian North Sea crude grade Ekofisk hit a ...
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In the January-February period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 130.8 million mt, up 1.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Bhaskar Dutta, CEO of the Omani steel and pipe manufacturer Al Jazeera Steel, stated that rebar consumption in the GCC countries is expected to rise to 12 ...
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Export from technological and industrial zones in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 250 million euros?and there was a growth of 95% compared to last year, show data of the Directorate for Technological and Industrial Development Zones ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
In the week ended March 31, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.84 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 1.6 percent ...
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The exports of garments and textiles from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam to Middle East and Africa have risen to US$ 117.4 million in 2013, about three times higher than the value in 2009, chinhphu.vn reported. According to the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, textiles, apparel products
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% ...
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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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The establishment of an Asian regional gas trading hub is still at least five years away, International Gas Union President Jerome Ferrier told a press conference in Sydney Tuesday. LNG importers in Asia are studying plans to establish a ...
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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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US miner Drummond restarted coal loadings from its Colombian export terminal late Monday after its environmental restrictions were lifted following a three-month export ban, the company said in a statement. The miner's Colombian ...
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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$2.854 billion, up 7.5% from the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics by Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
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American milk producers are enjoying a windfall thanks in part to surging exports to China, Bloomberg reported, citing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. While the average farm will see a 21% drop in net-cash income in 2014, dairy ...
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Carpet exports from Turkey surged 8.5 percent to US$ 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, ...
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A report has been commissioned to examine the value of the live sheep trade to the Australian wool industry and Western Australia in particular. The report follows a request by the Australian Wool Innovation's Industry Consultative ...
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