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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
European traders reported on Tuesday 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, Argentina Brazil or South Africa. They said…
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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 13, 2025
Saudi Arabia's General Food Security Authority, the country's largest state wheat-buying agency, said Monday that it had bought around 500,000 metric tonnes of wheat from Saudi investors overseas. On the social media platform X, GFSA announced…
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October 13, 2025
European traders reported on Monday that Pakistan has requested price offers for an international tender where it will buy up to 100,000 tons of sugar remain valid until Tuesday October 14, while further offers are being considered. Traders said that no purchase had yet been reported.
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October 13, 2025
China's crude imports increased 3.9% from the previous year in September as refineries ran at their highest rates of utilisation this year. China, the world's biggest crude importer, imported 47.25 millions metric tons of oil during September…
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October 10, 2025
European traders reported that the lowest price offered by Tunisia’s state grain agency in its international tender on Friday for about 100,000 metric tonnes of soft wheat is believed to be 254.58 per ton, including cost and freight. No purchase has been made yet…
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October 9, 2025
On Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration announced that the U.S. had imposed sanctions against about 100 individuals and entities, including a Chinese refinery and terminal independent of China, which helped Iran in its oil and petrochemicals trading.
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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 8, 2025
The state grain buyer of Jordan has announced an international tender for up to 120,000 tons of milling whey that can come from a variety or origins. European traders confirmed this on Wednesday. The deadline for submitting price offers is October 14.
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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 6, 2025
The traders estimated that the lowest price in the tender for Bangladesh's state grain buyer to buy 50,000 metric tonnes of rice, which closed on Sunday, was $359.77 per metric ton CIF liners out. They said that the offer is believed to have come from Bagadiya Brothers in India.
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October 6, 2025
Initial assessments by European traders indicated that the lowest price in the international bid from Pakistan for 100,000 metric tons sugar, which closed on Sunday, was $533 per metric ton (cost and freight included). The state-owned Trading…
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October 6, 2025
The General Food Security Authority of Saudi Arabia (GFSA) announced on Monday that the country purchased 455,000 metric tonnes of wheat at an international tender in December and early January. In a press release, Ahmad Al-Fares, CEO of GFSA…
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October 3, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the United States had killed four people during a strike on a vessel suspected to be carrying illegal drugs. This is at least the fourth attack of this kind in recent weeks. Donald Trump, the 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…
