By Felicity Landon from London No chance of walking on Dartmoor one wet morning in Devon last week… but…
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Smuggling crippling indigenous rice investors
Rice Smuggling has reached frightening levels, with hundreds of trailers ferrying tonnes of the staple food…
Shea Butter: Multi-Billion naira non-oil export commodity beckons
Although, largely a produce of the Sahel savanna crop that spreads across several West African countries…
Piracy embers still aglow in Somalia
By Charlie Bartlett from London Until relatively recently, Somali pirates were the scourge of East-West trade, operating in a…
Drones becoming ever more popular in shipbuilding
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, as they are better known, are gaining in popularity in…
Somalia warns of return to piracy
In northern Somalia, government officials are warning of a revival of piracy, unless foreign nations…
China, a ‘Death Cross’, and shipping shares
By Barry Parker from New York With Chinese growth slowing, a “Death Cross” – a…
The nuts and bolts of bunkering
The International Monetary Fund expects global growth to remain moderate for the rest of the…
Industry fears law on container weight verification could bring cargo chaos
Shippers, forwarders, shipping lines and container terminals “urgently” need to begin discussions over the practicalities of…
Did the world actually need a new Suez Canal?
By Ahmed Feteha The Suez Canal took 10 years to build and cost thousands of workers…
India’s plans to overhaul rivers for shipping
The Indian government’s ambitious plans to develop 101 rivers into an integrated Inland Water Transport (IWT)…
South Korean shipyards struggling as offshore strategy fails
The deep-ocean strategy is coming back to bite South Korean shipyards. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.,…