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Baltic Index Rises for Fifth Day On Stronger Capesize, Panamax Rates

Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose for the fifth straight session on Monday, boosted by robust gains in capesize and panamax vessels. The index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and...

Copper TC/RCs benchmark next year seen at 15-year low, survey shows

Copper concentrate processing fees are expected to be set at a 15-year-low in 2025 because of increasing tightness in raw material supply from mine disruptions and an expansion in smelting capacity, a survey of industry participants found. As copper sector...

Trump’s win to bring spotlight on US agricultural trade, sustainability

The outcome of the US presidential election is seen as decisive for the country’s agriculture, with the new president Donald Trump assuming office amid low commodity prices and falling farm incomes. The Platts assessments from S&P Global Commodity Insights for US...

Japan steel industry feels ‘sense of crisis’ as imports hit 10-year high

The Japanese steel industry is feeling a “sense of crisis” as the country’s steel imports for the April-September period reached a 10-year high, with supply from China hitting a record high, an executive of Nippon Steel 5401.T said. “We informed the government that we...

QatarEnergy inaugurates four LNG vessels, the first from Korean shipyards in its historic shipbuilding program

QatarEnergy inaugurated four new conventional-size LNG vessels built in the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard and the Hanwha Ocean Shipyard in the Republic of Korea as part of QatarEnergy’s historic fleet expansion program. The four new vessels, “Id’asah”, “Nuaijah”,...

Chinese shipbuilders seek transition towards clean energy

In a bustling shipyard of Haixi Bay, located in the Xihai’an (West Coast) New Area of Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province, workers were welding steel plates on the production line. “Our order books are full until 2028. With tight schedules and heavy workloads, we...

Baltic Index Rises for Fifth Day On Stronger Capesize, Panamax Rates

Copper TC/RCs benchmark next year seen at 15-year low, survey shows

Trump’s win to bring spotlight on US agricultural trade, sustainability

Japan steel industry feels ‘sense of crisis’ as imports hit 10-year high

QatarEnergy inaugurates four LNG vessels, the first from Korean shipyards in its historic shipbuilding program

Chinese shipbuilders seek transition towards clean energy

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