
JERA to buy EDF Trading’s coal and freight business
JERA Trading Singapore has reached a non-binding agreement to buy EDF Trading’s coal and freight business.
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JERA Trading Singapore has reached a non-binding agreement to buy EDF Trading’s coal and freight business.

ABP signs a new deal with Thomas Bell and Sons, which will see the Brigg firm invest in a new blending unit at the Port of Immingham, UK.

Logistec opens newly built bulk warehouses to handle biomass products at its expanded Brunswick Terminal, Georgia, US.

Growing steel demand has helped the dry bulk sector expand in the recent past. Jeremy Platt and Peter Fish, MEPS, UK, report in Dry Bulk’s Autumn issue.

United Wagon Company is opening its subsidiary in the US, Uniwagon North America Corp.

The current crisis in the dry bulk shipping sector will result in industry consolidation, as well as more focus on risk management and higher financing costs, according to BIMCO.

United Wagon Company (UWC) has begun the mass production hopper cars for mineral fertilizers.

ABB and Microsoft are to partner to drive digital industrial transformation in the maritime and ports industry.

The Baltic Exchange has appointed Mark Jackson as its new CEO, as the London-based shipping organisation prepares to be taken over by Singapore Exchange.

Safe Bulkers Inc. has agreed to the novation of a Japanese newbuilding panamax class vessel and the sale of a Japanese newbuilding kamsarmax class vessel.

Anglo American sells niobium and phosphates businesses in Brazil to China Molybdenum Co. Ltd.

Global steel production rose 1.8% year-on-year in August 2016, according to the World Steel Association.