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...Tank operators are required by law to bring levels up to 75 per cent by September 1, 85 per cent by October 1 and 95 per cent by November 1....
...Port congestion: Mediterranean container ports are nearing full capacity, operators have warned, as they deal with overflowing storage yards following Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. 4....
...The imperial naval rivalry between Britain and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries contributed substantially to the outbreak of the first world war which ended the golden age....
...Under a new state rule that comes into effect next month, only zero-emissions drayage trucks can get new permits to haul shipping containers into and out of the state’s busy ports....
...“The Russian economy now is like a gas station that has started producing tanks.”...
...Last month Galeria, Germany’s biggest department store chain, filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Germany blocks Chinese stake in 2 chipmakers on security fears...
...The Élysée said Alstom had signed a deal to build a metro in Chengdu, while French container shipping group CMA CGM agreed to work on biofuels with a Chinese group and the Shanghai port....
...AP Møller-Maersk, the world’s biggest container shipping company, has ordered 12 methanol-powered container ships worth $2.2bn from KSOE to be delivered starting in 2024....
...Today’s top stories Germany is to supply 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine as well as allowing allies to send their own, marking a significant increase in western military aid....
...This is a non-cap,” said Simone Tagliapetra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel....
...Naledi Pandor said her government, nominally neutral in the conflict, was now less inclined to criticise Moscow due to the west’s supply of battle tanks to Kyiv....
...A recent survey by the Ifo think-tank found that 46 per cent of industrial firms rely on intermediate inputs from China....
...Scholz courted controversy when he asked ministries to back an investment from Cosco, a state-owned Chinese shipping conglomerate, in a container terminal at the Port of Hamburg....
...Brushing aside resistance from within his own government, in October German chancellor Olaf Scholz approved the acquisition of a 24.9 per cent stake in a Hamburg container terminal by Cosco, a giant Chinese...
...According to the think-tank E3G, the ETS has generated revenues of €1tn during the past decade, an amount that has not escaped the attention of the European Commission....
...Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz recently pushed for Chinese state-owned shipping conglomerate Cosco to be able to buy a stake in a container terminal in Hamburg....
...You can get a really fabulous 7 or 8 per cent ABV white wine from the Mosel Valley in Germany....
...France’s Engie and Germany’s RWE operate reactors whose lives have been temporarily extended due to the energy crisis....
...The more popular replacement for Russian piped gas has been liquefied natural gas, a compound vapour cooled to -162C and transported in hyper-refrigerated containers on large tanker ships....
...More clarity on supplies is likely to emerge on Thursday, when Gazprom is scheduled to bring its direct pipeline to Germany, Nord Stream 1, back online....
...In fact, the number of container ships waiting outside port continues to set record highs....
...A pledging conference aimed at fundraising $5.2bn for Covax takes place in Germany tomorrow....
...“This is a new kind of war, when soldiers are posting TikToks from the battlefront and Google Maps is being used to identify where the tanks are....
...“Given the ECB has made the mistake in the past of tightening too fast it is going to err on the side of caution this time,” says Maria Demertzis, deputy director of the think-tank Bruegel....
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