Copper concentrate processing fees are expected to be set at a 15-year-low in 2025 because of increasing tightness in raw material supply from mine disruptions and an expansion in smelting capacity, a survey of industry participants found. As copper sector...

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The outcome of the US presidential election is seen as decisive for the country’s agriculture, with the new president Donald Trump assuming office amid low commodity prices and falling farm incomes. The Platts assessments from S&P Global Commodity Insights for US...

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The Japanese steel industry is feeling a “sense of crisis” as the country’s steel imports for the April-September period reached a 10-year high, with supply from China hitting a record high, an executive of Nippon Steel 5401.T said. “We informed the government that we...

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QatarEnergy inaugurated four new conventional-size LNG vessels built in the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard and the Hanwha Ocean Shipyard in the Republic of Korea as part of QatarEnergy’s historic fleet expansion program. The four new vessels, “Id’asah”, “Nuaijah”,...

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In a bustling shipyard of Haixi Bay, located in the Xihai’an (West Coast) New Area of Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province, workers were welding steel plates on the production line. “Our order books are full until 2028. With tight schedules and heavy workloads, we...

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Brazil is set to import nearly 900,000 metric tons of thermal coal this month, the highest monthly tally on record and three times the monthly average for 2024 so far, according to data from ship-tracking firm Kpler. The coal buying binge comes as an enduring drought...

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