by Matt Miller Mar 14, 2016
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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