Commodities
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Contributions
Liquid challenges to arise later this year
Jeffrey Landsberg from Commodore Research highlights China’s hydropower capabilities as something for dry bulk owners to watch. Dry bulk freight…
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Dry Cargo
Rio Tinto to up iron ore shipments this year
Providing some cheer to hard pressed dry bulk owners who have seen the Baltic Dry Index plummet to levels never…
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Dry Cargo
Noble rebuts S&P downgrade
Embattled commodities trader Noble Group rebutted another big ratings downgrade yesterday. The company took to the Singapore Exchange to dismiss…
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Dry Cargo
Centrex Metals mulls taking Wisco to court over stalled port plans
Centrex Metals is mulling taking the subsidiary of one of China’s largest steel mills to court over a stalled port…
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Americas
NewLead is ‘playing a game with the court’, says judge
The CEO of NewLead Holdings Michael Zolotas has been ordered by a judge to produce his hard drive for forensic…
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Contributions
Chinese grain imperatives
SinoShip’s Mark Downing on China’s quest for food security. Roughly a tenth of seaborne dry bulk goods is composed of…
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Asia
Dry bulk market to remain weak for at least two more years
At a coal and freight seminar yesterday hosted by the Singapore Exchange and IHS, delegates heard how coking coal is…
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Contributions
Copper is still king. So is China
The shipping industry still looks to commodities as barometers of its own future, and the global economy, generally. Copper is…
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Contributions
Chinese equity collapse has not hit iron ore prices
Jeffrey Landsberg from Commodore Research is bullish for capesizes in the second half. While this week’s latest round of severe…
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Dry Cargo
No more bull from Noble: Michael Dee
Singapore: One of the Noble Group’s most trenchant critics, Michael Dee, has hit back at the commodities trader’s claims to…
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Asia
Noble reviews its accounting practices
Singapore: Bowing to investor pressure Singapore-listed commodities giant Noble Group has commissioned a third party review of its mark to…
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Dry Cargo
Noble’s stock should be suspended: Michael Dee
Singapore: One of the chief critics of the embattled Singapore-listed Noble Group, Michael Dee, has contacted Splash to further his…
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Asia
Naveen Jindal on tenterhooks in coal mine scam
New Delhi: On Monday, June 1, industrialist-politician Naveen Jindal will get to know whether he will have to exchange his…
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Asia
Japanese banks to support India’s coal-based power plants
Mumbai: Dry bulk shipping, by way of coking and thermal coal imports into power-starved India, will receive a much-needed fillip…
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Asia
Adani claims to have buyers for 70% of its Australia coal
Mumbai: Despite attracting widespread opposition from environmentalists over its coal mining activities in Australia, India’s Adani Mining claims to have…
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Contributions
Could MiFID II prompt freight trading to set sail for Singapore?
Hanne Johansson, head of global sales at NASDAQ Commodities, writes exclusively for Splash on how the latest EC directive on…
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Asia
Richard Branson to oppose Adani in Australia coal project
Mumbai: Flamboyant billionaire Richard Branson, promoter of the Virgin group of companies, has displayed his new feathers as an environmental…
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Asia
Adanis in talks with Korean, Chinese banks to fund Queensland coal project
Ahmedabad: The Adani Group is understood to be in advanced talks with the Exim Bank of Korea and some Chinese…
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Dry Cargo
Caravel hunts handymax buys
Hong Kong: The Caravel Group, the shipping and trading group founded by Harry Banga in 2013, is in the market…
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Asia
Indo-Bangla pact for moving foodgrains by inland waterways
New Delhi: India is to sign a long-term treaty with Dhaka for transporting foodgrains to its north-eastern states on a…
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