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Chips off the old blocks

While most commodities have been battered by low demand and falling prices, woodchips and wood pellets have demonstrated remarkable strength and buoyancy.

East Asia trade: Three points to the triangle
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When it snows it pours - salt

It is so ubiquitous that the complexity of bringing salt to your table or pouring it on your roads is all but ignored – unless there isn’t any available.

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“One Belt, One Road” … one lamentable excursion in infrastructure projects

China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is bursting with promise. But Beijing’s track record for “exporting” infrastructure projects has run into a few dead ends over the years, notably in Sri Lanka.

KPMG’s global infrastructure practice examines “ten emerging trends” in the project sector
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China’s One Belt, One Road initiative promises to be the biggest generator of Asian mega- projects

While the Chinese economy has slowed, mega-projects associated with the One Belt, One Road initiative are rolling ahead with no stop sign in sight.

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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank goes live

Two years after China unveiled plans for the establishment of the AIIB, it is now operational. But when will the new bank begin to make a difference in infrastructure projects?

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Trouble in the land of cotton

With a dampening of demand in traditional U.S. cotton export markets and more competition from low cost overseas producers, cotton prices have bottomed out.

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Baltic Exchange bid speculation

Last month’s “informal” takeover bid by the London Metal Exchange (LME) is the latest, and likely not the last, for the venerable Baltic Exchange.

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Don’t look now, but Yilport is rising fast

A few years ago, Turkish terminal operator Yilport had a small portfolio – one. Now Yilport’s portfolio has spread around the world. And as Yilport’s CEO Sean Pierce explains, there is a great deal more ahead, as the ambitious TO sets it sights on being a top ten player by 2025.

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