MSC to buy Hanjin’s share of Californian port
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), who is Swiss-based, has signed an agreement to enable the purchase of Hanjin Shipping’s stake of a terminal at California’s Port of Long Beach. South Korean...
Hong Kong firm seizes upon Hanjin woes
Hong Kong-based shipping company, Seaspan Corporation has purchased four panama container ships form the bankrupt and helpless South Korean container carrier, Hanjin Shipping. The vessels were sold by...
The railway hype rolls on
The railway connecting China and Thailand looks to finally be back on track with construction scheduled to start in early 2017. The whole process has been incredibly drawn out, with the announcement o...
Base Metals continue to normalise
Base Metals continue to remain under pressure, following a turbulent November and start to December. On December 20th, prices are down an average of 0.5 percent, nickel is bucking the trend with a 0.7...
Japan pondering over substantial UK investment
The Japanese government is debating providing support to its domestic companies whom want to invest into the UK’s nuclear programme, through financial support. The government will reportedly req...
Groundbreaking for solar energy…
In what is rather groundbreaking breakthrough for solar energy, it is now becoming the cheapest form of new electricity. This is not the first time it has happened, it’s been done before but only ever...
Japan to Europe… by train?
As Japan and Russia continue on their path to mending broken ties, Russia’s rail operator has seen an opportunity and is proposing a series of rail links that would ultimately connect Japan with Europ...
Copper slips!
Thursday 15th December saw the momentum of copper halted with the price slipping, as a result of a surging dollar. Copper for March delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exch...
“Superhighway” dispute in Nigeria
The Nigerian government are planning on constructing a six-lane “superhighway” through a rainforest in the southeast of the West-African country; however, the proposal is being heavily contested by co...
Container hotel coming to the UK
The city of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, is about to become home to a 220 bedroom hotel, constructed entirely from containers. Hotel chain ‘Holiday-Inn’ claim they are one of the first in the No...
The EU – China steel conflict is worsening…
The European Union and China do not appear to be any closer in solving their differences over China’s output of steel. The European Union has now launched a fresh investigation into whether corrosion-...
Japan has created a high-skilled rescue robot
Researchers from a number of universities across Japan have created a prototype for a robot that has the ability to increase chances of rescue and survival in disaster situations. The robot performs r...
Records broken in U.S. solar markets
The U.S. solar market obliterated previous records for solar photovoltaic installations in the thirds quarter of 2016. 4’143 megawatts of solar PV were installed, which equates to an incredible one me...
As far as investments go… this is a terrible one
The UK has been left slightly red faced today; after it emerged they spent a whopping £286 million on an airport that is located on an Island they own in the south of the Atlantic Ocean. The price is ...
Canadian shipping port to make history in North America
The Port of Sydney in Nova Scotia, Canada, is likely to become the first in North America to have the capacity to accommodate the largest shipping containers in the world, if the proposed and highly s...
South Korea to receive some Canadian influence
Toronto based architectural firm, Office OU, has been announced as the winner of an international contest to turn the administrative capital of South Korea in a ‘global culture city’, which will have ...
China increases its steel output
In what is no doubt unwelcomed news from the rest of the world, November saw China’s steel mills boost their monthly output at the fastest rate in two years. An increase in infrastructure demand has e...
The US has opened its first off-shore wind farm
The United States has officially opened its first off-shore wind farm, which opens up a new avenue of clean energy for the world’s biggest economy. GE and Deepwater Wind have partnered to build ...
More change in the shipping industry
Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) have all joined an agreement which will see the 3 companies enter a collaborative period of strategic business opera...
New York to help low earners gain access to solar energy
The governor of the state of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, has announced that $3.6 million of funding will be made available to help increase solar energy access. The funding is being made available to i...
Japan to renovate airport ahead of 2020 Olympics
Tokyo’s Haneda airport will be undergoing some large-scale construction work, in preparation for much larger amounts of traffic at the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. The government are expecting to se...
Bad news for the British construction industry…
According to Savills, one of the largest estate agents in the United Kingdom, the Brexit vote is going to lead to a significant slump in the construction industry, with as much as 50% of planned devel...
Price jump in copper
The price of copper hit an 18-month high for a brief period last week; the high was met as a reaction to continued growth in the global manufacturing industry, in addition to Donald Trump’s $500 billi...
There is a 580 ton monster making waves in China
China do not really do things in small measures, do they? They go really big and make a huge mess of it, like that huge straddling bus that glides over traffic and was the ‘next big thing’ but now lie...
Do solar panels pay back their energy ‘debt’?
One of the main points that are often brought up by sceptics of renewable energies and solar panels is the fossil fuels used to produce them; however, recent studies find that solar panels produced in...
New weld procedures for duplex and superduplex
Pruce Newman has recently completed a new set of qualified welding procedure specifications specifically for duplex and superduplex stainless steels. The procedures, assessed by Lloyd’s Register, are ...
Steel Plate Cutting Methods and Services
There are four steel plate cutting methods basically, they are flame cutting, laser cutting, waterjet cutting and plasma cutting, which can deal with any steel plates with any thickness. Some are suit...
Copper Bars
In order to understand the operational status of copper bars production enterprises, this week the research team conducted a follow-up survey of 10 production enterprises in Month of 8 and 9. Among, 3...
Shipping emissions could endanger reduction efforts
As emissions from shipping continue to rise, along with those of aviation, it is anticipated that they could cancel up to half of the savings made my all other forms of transport in Europe, by 2030. A...
Chinese Steel rallies with raw materials
Chinese rebar steel futures hit their highest point since April 2014, on Wednesday, amid signs of a strengthening economy and fears of tight supply. The increase had a knock on effect to raw materials...
A new and unique style of football pitch
A collaboration between London-based architect AL_A and popular UK consulting engineer group has led to the design of a potentially revolutionary style of football pitch. It is a modular system that w...
Base Metals recoup losses
Base metals ticked higher during Monday December 5 trading sessions as the market recovered from Friday’s sell-off amid positive Chinese data and an uptick in fund activity. Still, uncertainty surroun...
Largest ever investment into off-grid solar
Lumos Global, a firm that specializes in off-grid solar and operates in Nigeria, has announced that they has announced a USD 90 million investment, acquired from fundraisers. Through this investment t...
Cladding Alloys
Brazing sheet comprises of a core alloy clad on 1 or 2 sides with a lower melting aluminum-silicon (Al-Si) alloy. This thin layer, usually makes up 5 % to 10 % of the total thickness of the brazing sh...
Rolls -Royce takes measures against poor maritime industry
Rolls-Royce has decided it’s time to take action against the struggling maritime industry and has announced they will be laying off 800 workers throughout 2016 and 2017, specifically citing the contin...
Space-based solar power could become a thing
Granted, it’s probably a fair while from becoming a reality but space-based solar power could very much become a reality for renewable energies and would play a pivotal role in our survival. Already, ...