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BRICS DRINKS LOGISTICS - SWOT ANALYSIS
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China has a booming e-commerce sector, and growing online drinks retailers are building more warehouses nationwide. They need to balance ‘just-in-case’ and ‘just-in-time’ demands and also the need for flexibility versus low inventory. Negotiating these logistical pressures is vital in this huge yet highly fragmented market.…
PROPOSED EU REFERENDUM RAISES COMMERCIAL PROPERTY UNCERTAINTY – BUT MARKET PLAYERS REMAIN CONFIDENT
WHAT impact could uncertainty in the run-up to a promised British referendum on continued membership of the European Union (EU) have on investment flows from the UK into commercial property and developments in the rest of the EU?
What might the impact be if a referendum did indeed take place and voters told their government loud and clear to quit the EU and free up the UK to make its own laws and regulations covering important aspects of finance, investment and tax?…
SAUDIS NERVOUS ABOUT BECOMINGA PRICE MAKER IN GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS
SHOULD Middle Eastern oil producers, Saudi Arabia in particular, be price makers rather than takers, confined to influencing prices through OPEC quotas? With OPEC’s contribution to overall oil production dwindling compared to non-OPEC producers’ output, and rising domestic demand in the Arab world, there are strong arguments for price signalling, but the turmoil in the region means any change in strategy will be difficult to implement.…
DRILLING BOOM ADDS TO OILTECH PROSPECTS IN MIDDLE EAST
SO diverse are the Middle East’s oil and gas reservoirs and the environmental conditions encountered that companies focused on optimising exploration and production view the region as a giant laboratory for proving new technologies.
Its oil also varies hugely in viscosity, from the Arab Light crude of Saudi Arabia’s Al Khurais onshore field to the heavy crudes in Oman’s Mukhaizna onshore field.…
ETHIOPIA DEVELOPS MAJOR POTASH RESERVES FOR ASIAN MARKETS
ETHIOPIA’S potential as a source of industrial minerals is beginning to be realised, with a growing number of exploration and mining projects underway, and rapidly increasing foreign investment.
To date, its Ministry of Mines has granted 72 industrial minerals exploration licenses – 61 to foreign companies, eight to Ethiopian/foreign joint ventures, and three to local companies; and 52 mining licenses – 28 to foreign companies, 17 to Ethiopian/foreign joint ventures, and seven to local companies.…
PAKISTAN SHIP-SCRAPPING SECTOR STARTS TALKS ON IMPLEMENTING IMO GOOD PRACTICE CONVENTION
Pakistan’s shipbreaking industry has started talks with the Pakistani government over how it can comply with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, whose rules come into force in 2015. The chairman of the Pakistan Ship Breakers Association has told Steel First that he has met with officials to discuss measures for implementing the treaty: “We are ready to take steps to protect and promote the ship breaking industry,” declared Deewan Rizwan Farooqui.…
TERROR FINANCE - CAN THE EU BE AN EFFECTIVE COP?
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
AFTER two years from the entry into force of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) between the European Union (EU) and the United States, the European Commission patted itself on the back, claiming the agreement is working.…
CHANGE IN EU GSP SYSTEM TO IMPACT EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Commission is hoping that the recent overhaul of the European Union’s (EU) Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) will increase the flow of rare earth metals and aluminium oxide into the EU. Concerns persist about supplies of these important industrial minerals.…
MIDDLE EAST PAINT MARKET KNOCKED BY CONTINUING DISPRUPTION OF ARAB SPRING
BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT
THE UPRISINGS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past two years have had a negative impact on the construction and paint sectors, throwing a proverbial spanner in the works when the region was striving to come out of recession.…
MALAYSIA HAS SOLID SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN FOREIGN UNIVERSITY BRANCH CAMPUSES
BY MARIANI DEWI
BRANCH campuses of established western universities can be major prizes for emerging market higher education systems – but attracting these institutions is not easy, even for economically dynamic countries such as Malaysia.
There are still only six branch campuses in this south-east Asian country.…