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Free Fall in Shipping Rates to Devastate Industry [01 Sep 2009]  
A Bloomberg survey by six analysts and fund managers predicts that the rate for leasing capesize vessels will reach as low as $18,000 from its current price of $37,865 per day. It should be recalled t  ...More
Tags: Bloomberg     Netherlands     BDI    
Dutch Revving to Re-write 400yr-old Trade History with India [06 Apr 2010]  
The Netherlands has sent a high level delegation to India to tap the growing importance in the world economy of its long-standing trade partner. The five-day Netherlands economic mission which started  ...More
Tags: Dutch    Netherlands    India    GNP    Europe    
Dolphin Exports from Solomons Invite Protest – Trader Defends Sale [23 Aug 2010]  
The dolphin trading by one of the Solomon Islands' exporter has not gone well with a leading animal right organization. Solomons dolphin activist Lawrence Makili who is the Earth Island Institute's Pa  ...More
Tags: Dolphin     Solomons     Whales     The Cove    
Fairtrade Refutes Charges of Its Affiliate Farmers No Better [12 Nov 2010]  
The Fairtrade Foundation has hit back at the criticism of its products had failed to lift the farmers out of poverty by a think-tank stating that such claims were baseless. The Institute of Economic A  ...More
Tags: Fairtrade Cadbury Starbucks Crowther Mali    
Study Says NZ Must Use Neo-colonization Model to Boost Trade [06 Dec 2010]  
A New Zealand think tank in its recent report titled “Plugging the Gap” stated the country should establish innovation centres at prominent international locations as it had been done successfully by  ...More
Tags: Plugging the Gap    
CAFTA Helps Costa Rica to enhance Trade with US [21 Jan 2011]  
The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX) stated that the total sales of country’s exports to the US rose 24 percent in 2010. Foreign Trade Minister Anabel González attributed the increase in  ...More
Tags: Costa Rica    The Dominican Republic    El Salvador    Guatemala    Honduras    Nicaragua    
Bangladesh emerges as new hub for apparel exports [22 Feb 2011]  
With 40 percent growth in its apparel exports, Bangladesh has emerged as new destinations for apparel exports, said The Daily Star.<BR><BR>Bangladesh has registered a 40 percent hike in it  ...More
Tags: The Daily Star    Mahin Group    
Jiangsu Province in China signs up to Ogilvy and Mather [29 Aug 2012]  
China's Jiangsu Provincial Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with marcomms giant Ogilvy & Mather.

The agreement is the first of its kind that the Jiangsu Government has  ...More
Tags: Jiangsu Province China Ogilvy and Mather    
The Fragile Five- High Octane Economies or Ticking Time Bombs [03 Feb 2014]  
What’s common between Brazil, India, South Africa, Indonesia and Turkey? They are part of an exclusive club called the ‘fragile five’, world economies that are progressing quickly but are noted for be  ...More
Tags: The Fragile Five Octane Economies Ticking Time