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September 25, 2024
Market sources reported that Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), which operates the Al Zour refinery in Kuwait, will close a tender for low-sulfur fuel oil on Wednesday. The fuel oil is expected to be loaded between October and December of this year.
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September 27, 2024
European traders reported on Friday that Algerian state agency ONAB purchased an unknown quantity of animal feed corn from Argentina or Brazil as part of an international tender which ended on Thursday. The tender was for up to 240.000 tons.
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September 26, 2024
According to sources and a report on the accident, at least four people are dead after an oil barge sank in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. The barge was operated by a contractor for the state-run PDVSA energy company. The report said that another…
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September 26, 2024
European traders reported on Thursday that Jordan's state grain buyer had issued an international tender for the purchase of up to 120,000 tons of animal feed barley. The deadline to submit price proposals in the tender is October 2. Jordan's failure to purchase 120…
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September 26, 2024
The UK announced on Thursday that it has sanctioned two shipping companies and five ships under its Russian sanctions regime. In the first week of this month, Britain sanctioned 10 more ships from Russia's "shadow fleet", a group of vessels…
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September 25, 2024
On Wednesday, agriculture groups urged the White House take action to prevent a possible strike that could start on October 1 at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. These ports handle about half of the nation's ocean imports. The American Farm Bureau Federation and other groups…
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September 25, 2024
According to traders, four trading companies have so far participated in the international bid of Jordan's state grain buyer for up to 120,000 tons animal feed barley to be purchased on Wednesday. Trading houses believed to have participated so far are Viterra, Bunge and Al Dahra.
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September 25, 2024
European traders reported that the importer group TFMA, based in Thailand, purchased between 60,000 and 65,000 metric tonnes of animal feed wheat during a Wednesday tender for up to 195,000 tones. It was not clear what volume was purchased,…
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September 25, 2024
The state grain buyer of Jordan has announced an international tender for up to 120,000 tons of milling whey that can come from optional origins. The deadline to submit price proposals in the tender is October 1. Traders had expected a new announcement after Jordan failed to purchase 120…
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September 25, 2024
In a filing with the South Korean regulatory authorities, Hanwha Ocean announced that it had halted negotiations to buy Austal, an Australian shipbuilder. Austal announced in April that it had turned down a takeover bid of A$1.02 Billion ($701,35 Million) because the Australian and U.S.
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September 23, 2024
European traders reported on Monday that the Iranian state-owned animal feeding importer SLAL had issued an international bid to purchase at least 120,000 metric tonnes of animal feed barley. They said that the deadline for submitting price offers to the tender is Tuesday 24th September.
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September 20, 2024
The regional governor of Odesa said that a Russian missile attack has damaged port infrastructure in Odesa and a civilian vessel flying the flag of Antigua. Governor Oleh Kiper announced on Telegram that four people were injured by the strike.
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September 20, 2024
European traders reported on Friday that Taiwan's MFIG buying group had issued an international tender for up to 65,000 metric tonnes of animal feed corn, which could be sourced in the United States, Brazil, or South Africa. They said that the…
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September 17, 2024
APK-Inform, an analyst, said that despite the bad weather, Ukraine will likely have a record soybean harvest in 2024 due to its large sowing area. The consultancy estimated that the harvest would be up to 6,000,000 metric tons or 9% higher than 2023.
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September 12, 2024
Market sources say that the crude oil loading plan for Russia from the Baltic port of Primorsk & Ust-Luga has been revised up by 0.2 million metric tons in September to 6.2 millions tons. Rosneft is Russia's biggest oil company. It has added 200…
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September 6, 2024
The Feed Leaders Committee of South Korea (FLC) bought between 66,000 and 68,000 metric tonnes of animal feed corn that was expected to come from the United States on Thursday in a late private deal without issuing a tender to international buyers, European traders reported on Friday.
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September 3, 2024
VTTI’s oil storage facility in the Europoort region of the Port of Rotterdam is back to normal after a power failure at the port impacted it for a few hour earlier on Tuesday. Sources close to the issue said that the Service Terminal Rotterdam…
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September 3, 2024
The Netherlands' electricity grid operator TenneT reported that a power outage at the Rotterdam Port area affected the major petrochemical industries located there on Tuesday morning for several hours. However, the problem was resolved shortly after 1000 GMT.
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September 2, 2024
Transnet, the state-owned South African logistics group, reported a loss of 7.3 billion Rand ($408,72 million) for the year ending March 2024. This is up from a loss of 5.1 billion Rand a year before. Transnet, a debt-laden company, has been…
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August 30, 2024
On Friday afternoon, power began to be restored in some areas of Venezuela after the capital Caracas as well as much of the rest the country had been plunged into an earlier blackout. The government blamed the opposition for the blackout without providing any evidence.
