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BY MINDY RAN

ROTTERDAM is already Europe’s largest port and hence of importance for the import and export of waste materials from and to the European Union (EU) and this role is to strengthen.

For Rotterdam, the world’s fourth largest industrial port, behind China’s Shanghai and Ningbo, then Singapore, already utilises 26,000 acres, of which 12,500 acres are commercial sites and 13,500 acres water docks, rail lines, roads and pipeline zones.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

THE growth of data revenues and emerging markets contrasted with lacklustre domestic business, particularly in southern Europe, have dominated latest financial figures from the EU’s ‘big five’ telcos – Telecom Italia, Telefónica, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.…

BY WANG FANGQING, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH, PACIFICA GODDARD and MARK ROWE

WITH average incomes in the world’s emerging markets starting to approach western levels – at least in major urban areas – drinks companies are catering to increasingly expensive and refined tastes.…

BY DAVE YIN

FOLLOWING months of delays due to civil unrest, construction is in full swing for Egypt’s first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant, one that is expected to bolster Egypt’s economy by satisfying indigenous demand, as well as supplying exports.

Joint venture Egyptian Indian Polyester (EIPET) saw its foundation stone laid June 23 in Ain Sokhna, in Egypt’s northern Red Sea region, Nitin Puranik, managing director and chief executive officer of the new company told European Plastics News.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

In 20 years’ time, consumers might be looking back on today’s beverage market and laughing at the fact that people were once buying drinks just because they were thirsty.

"We’re going to start seeing a whole lot of new, nutritional ingredients popping up in our drinks soon – functionality will be the biggest theme in 20 years," said Tom Pirko, president of California-based international food and beverage advisory firm Bevmark LLC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DAVE YIN and WANG FANGQING

A GOOD deal of excitement has been created by the announcement this week in the UK academic journal Nature Geoscience that significant deposits of rare earths have been found in the Pacific Ocean floor.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’S textiles ministry’s top official Rita Menon has predicted at a conference of Indian clothing exporters the country’s garment exports would rise to US dollars USD14 billion for the year to March 2012, 26% higher than the previous year.…

BY MARK GODFREY

COTTON prices have eased in 2011, lifting the price pressure on major brands, according to VF Asia Pacific president Aidan O’Meara. The Hong Kong-based executive, who oversees 30 brands in the region, says it was the first time in 19 years at VF that he had seen inflation of production costs.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN and ALYSHAH HASHAM

THE SMALL West African country of Guinea Bissau has seen its share of bloody coups, and is known as a cocaine smuggling hub between Latin America and Europe. Continued lawlessness and corruption in the country helped forced the European Union (EU) to withdraw support from security sector reform in 2010.…

BY MARK GODFREY

SOFT loans from a cash-rich bevvy of state banks; direct payments to help build manufacturing bases; and tax breaks for firms using local components – these are all forms of state support currently helping China’s wind turbine and solar panel makers capture global market share.…