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December 4, 2025
Hapag-Lloyd's chief executive, who is the fifth-largest container company in the world, said that there was no set date for the return of shipping through the Suez Canal. In an online chat with customers, CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said that no date has been set for a return to normal operations.
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November 21, 2025
Traders said that the price of animal-feed barley is now equal to or higher than milling wheat in Europe, a trend unusually driven by export demand. Feed barley is typically sold at a significant discount to bread wheat. The grain industry is heavily supplied…
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November 6, 2025
Ambrey, a maritime security company, reported on Thursday pirates had boarded a tanker flying the Malta flag off the coast of Somalia. Ambrey, in a statement, said that pirates had approached the tanker on a skiff. They then opened fire. The pirates operated from a hijacked Iranian flagged dhow.
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October 30, 2025
French mining group Eramet has lowered its capital expenditure target for this fiscal year. It announced that it will announce more measures in December to combat declining results and increasing debt at the nickel-and-manganese producer. In a third quarter sales report…
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October 29, 2025
Italy warned against traveling to Mali on Wednesday due to security concerns. The government is under increasing pressure by insurgents linked to al Qaeda, who are imposing a blockade of fuel. The Italian Foreign Ministry has urged Italian nationals in Mali to leave as soon as they can.
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October 29, 2025
Italy warned against traveling to Mali on Wednesday due to security concerns. The government is under increasing pressure by insurgents linked to al Qaeda, who are imposing a blockade of fuel. The Italian Foreign Ministry has urged Italian nationals in Mali to leave as soon as they can.
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October 23, 2025
European traders reported on Thursday that Algeria's state grain agency OAIC purchased approximately 600,000 metric tonnes of milling wheat at an international auction which ended on Wednesday. The trader estimates for the purchase of Wednesday evening ranged between 500,000 and 600,000 tonnes.
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October 23, 2025
Multiple sources said that several suppliers had cancelled sales to Yulong Petrochemical of Middle Eastern oil and Canadian crude after the UK imposed its sanctions. This is likely to force the refiner to purchase more Russian crude. The refiner is China's latest with a daily capacity of 400…
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October 20, 2025
BHP Group's iron ore production in the first quarter of this year was a little below estimates, according to a report released on Tuesday. This is because planned maintenance at Port Hedland - including the rebuilding of an equipment - impacted its operations in Western Australia.
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October 14, 2025
State-run news agency Xinhua reports that a Chinese container ship completed a pioneering voyage through the Arctic and into a UK port. This journey cut in half the transit time of the electric vehicles aboard the ship, as well as the solar panels, which were destined for Europe.
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October 14, 2025
Radiant World, an Indian commodity trader, has hired Liam Brown and Louis McCauley to expand its industrial and precious-metals trading business. McCauley previously worked for Citi, Credit Agricole, and Goldman Sachs, and Brown traded industrial metals.
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October 7, 2025
The company announced on Tuesday that Spain's Molgas had acquired the Dutch liquefied gas bunker supplier Titan after acquiring a 45% share in 2023. The demand for LNG bunkering has increased in recent years, with the introduction hundreds of ships which can run on this fuel.
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October 7, 2025
Intercereales' Philippe Heusele said that French wheat exporters would supply Morocco with 3.5 million tons of soft wheat, or two thirds, during the 2025-2026 harvest season. Moroccan traders and French grains associations Synacomex estimate…
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October 9, 2025
Data released on Thursday revealed that U.S. containerized imports in September were down 8.4% compared to the same period last year, with a drop of 22.9% in goods imported from China. This was due to ongoing trade tensions caused by President Donald Trump's policies. U.S.
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October 3, 2025
MarineTraffic reports that the Boracay tanker, which is under Western sanctions for being suspected of belonging to Russia's shadow fleet and also faces a separate French investigation, has left its anchorage off western France. The raid by…
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October 2, 2025
LSEG data revealed on Thursday that at least four LNG-laden tanks bound for the Zeebrugge LNG Terminal in Belgium were either diverted to another terminal or left idle during a Greenpeace 30-hour blockade protesting against European Union imports Russian gas.
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October 2, 2025
The Kremlin stated on Thursday that France’s boarding of an oil tanker suspected to be part of the shadow fleet that is involved in Russian oil trading was "hysteria", which could cause problems for the global energy transport routes. Dmitry Peskov…
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October 2, 2025
LSEG data on Thursday showed that at least three LNG-laden tanks appeared to have diverted from the Zeebrugge LNG Terminal in Belgium as Greenpeace activists protested against European Union imports. The second largest European importer is Russia…
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October 1, 2025
European traders reported that Jordan's state grain purchaser purchased approximately 60,000 metric tonnes of animal feed barley in an international bid seeking up to 122,000 tons on Wednesday. The traders reported that the barley had been purchased…
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October 1, 2025
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that it was "a great thing" for France to be investigating a suspected violation by the oil tanker Boracay. The oil tanker is suspected to belong to the "shadow fleet", which is involved in the Russian Oil Trade.
