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By Rhod Mackenzie

The Chinese shipping company Hainan Yangpu New New Shipping (HYNS) is continuing to expand its operations along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). On 8 May, a multilateral agreement was signed in Arkhangelsk regarding the organisation of export-import flights from the Arkhangelsk seap...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The companies with the highest capitalisation in relation to national GDP are located in Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Argentina. Saudi Aramco, the Saudi oil and gas company, is the only company from the G20 countries whose indicator exceeds the country’s GDP, according to RIA No...

By Rhod Mackenzie

China is taking advantage of lower global energy prices for coal and natural gas to secure supplies ahead of the summer season. Bloomberg has published an article on this topic.

At the end of April, gas imports into the country increased by 21% compared to the same period last...

NOVATEK has once again revised the composition of key equipment for the power supply of the Arctic LNG-2 plant under construction. Instead of procuring machines from the Chinese Harbin Guanghan Gas Turbine, which may not meet the deadline, the company has ordered three GTE-170 units from Power Machi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

London has announced its intention to construct the first “high-tech nuclear fuel facility in Europe” that would produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), in what appears to be a bid to create competition for Russia, which currently dominates the market.
The UK has awarde...

By Rhod Mackenzie

After the Western sanctions, India has strengthened its role as a major buyer of Russian oil. The current volume of transactions is back to its peak. However, exporters have managed to capture another critical segment - fertilisers. Delhi started to increase its purchases from Mo...