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...At the peak in 2008, shipowners were charging $200,000 a day to charter bulk carriers of iron and coal that travelled via the Cape of Good Hope. By 2014, rates had fallen to $18,000....
...The circumstances of dry bulk carriers are especially bleak. In the first week of August, meanwhile, US coal producer Alpha Natural Resources filed for bankruptcy protection....
...metal prices and bulk commodities in the past few months,” it argued....
...The “V” stands for versatile, and the Japanese producer will also make two other body types – probably a saloon car and a people-carrier – in the same places....
...After its collapse in 2005, the bulk of MG Rover’s production assets were bought by Nanjing Automotive and shipped to China....
...Similar weakness is also being felt in the tanker market, for example, in the TD3 rate for Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) covering voyages from the Middle East to Asia....
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