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...The latest advancements in chip technology — including a project called Triffid after the man-eating plants from British sci-fi history aimed at lowering the power consumption of sensors used by logistics...
...They are shifting logistics and warehousing to the EU, setting up EU legal identities to cope with regulatory risks, exploring stockpiling options or delaying investment decisions....
...agreements with energy and metal producers....
...Some energy and metals traders have indeed become more asset heavy through targeted acquisitions....
...commodity producers comes as independent trading houses continue to expand from their traditional “middleman business” of buying and selling raw materials to investing in physical production, refining and logistics...
...CWT, the Singapore-listed logistics group, has redoubled its efforts to break the duopoly of Glencore and Trafigura in physical metals trading with the acquisition of LN Metals of the UK....
...Executives at Mercuria, a privately owned oil trader based in Geneva, and CWT, a Singapore-listed logistics company, told the Financial Times they were targeting the number three spot in metals....
...Now a wave of young pretenders is attempting to follow in their footsteps: CWT, a Singapore-listed logistics group, has spent about $100m buying two small trading houses in the past year; Mercuria, a top...
...Increased ship scrapping – encouraged by high scrap metal prices – and the increasing tendency to run ships slowly to save fuel may help by improving the outlook in some markets....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...Emblazoned with the logos of the top beverage, beauty and pharmaceutical producers, the metal, glass and plastic containers made by Rexam play second fiddle to the contents within and the label on top....
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