Middle East Gasoline Boom Stirs Sales Fight From Europe to Asia

Expanding fuel shipments from the Persian Gulf will intensify competition from Europe to Asia, squeezing profits across the global refining industry and contributing to a looming glut of oil products.

Halifax port boom tops all in North America

Container traffic at the Port of Halifax is spiking this year as it grabs a growing share of the market due to its newfound ability to receive bigger cargo ships coming through the new Suez and Panama Canals.

China’s Consumer Boom Risks Slowing as Income Gains Moderate

Chinese consumers, whose spending helped underpin the first-half expansion this year, may not be able to deliver a repeat performance in the second as income growth slows.

Has China’s Seaborne Import Boom “Gone West”?

But in China, if you “go west” you get to the town of Urumqi. It has 3 million people, per capita income of $11,000 a year, the Texas Cafe serves great Tex-Mex, and it’s China’s “fastest growing city”. Oh yes – and it’s the world city most remote from the

Dry bulk FFA market: Boom, bust, or neither?

The physical market is proving an unreliable guide to fortunes in dry freight paper. ...

China’s sagging diesel demand finds hope in e-commerce boom

Diesel has found an unexpected ally in the growing legion of delivery trucks spawned by China’s rapidly expanding e-commerce, forestalling any drop in the country’s consumption of the fuel as the economy shifts its focus away from manufacturing. ...

Commodity price boom over, volume boom gathers pace: Russell

It’s become conventional wisdom that the commodities boom is over, and while the era of rising prices is gone, figures from...