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Analysts, aluminum buyers mull impact of Chinese petcoke crackdown
China’s amended Air Pollution and Control Law includes a restriction on the import, sale or use of higher-sulfur petroleum coke, which is likely to tighten supply of anode-grade petcoke for the...
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Met Coke World Summit: Less minutiae, more macro
As conferences go, this US event may be the most cerebral in the steel raw materials calendar. At the annual Met Coke World Summit in Pittsburgh this week, some of the presentations maybe far too...
View ArticleRomance of the high seas strong in shipping industry hearts
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea”. So said renowned Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad in his controversial 1900 novel, Lord Jim. Sailors from decades...
View ArticleAncient Roman lessons on shipping and logistics
The Ancient Romans were fiercely proud of the network of roads they built across their empire, all of which, as we know, led to Rome. Many of them, from Britain’s Fosse Way, to Greece’s Via Egnatia and...
View ArticleCoal’s future in Asia is far from bleak
The one question that I get asked every other day is “What’s the future of coal in Asia?” Especially after the Paris Climate agreement a couple of years ago, where 196 countries signed a pact to reduce...
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