It is reported that as the trend continues its efforts to strengthen its operations and management team in such a hard way, freight railroad operator CSX Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent on strong demand for coal, grain and metals. Besides, the company emphasizes its Full-year earnings prediction with a target of [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Potassium Sulfate Market Study Research Report” report to their offering.
This special report will estimate and analyse the China potassium sulfate market in 2007-2008. On the basis of data and information provided by State Statistics, State Customs, China Chemical Information Center and fertilizer-related associations, combined with [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Company Report — Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited” company profile to their offering.
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited is a listed company held by Yankuang Group Co., Ltd. in controlling shares, whose shares has been listed in Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai in 1998 respectively. It [...]

Iraq’s oil minister says pipeline sabotage is down significantly since last year and oil exports are up.
Hussain al-Shahristani attributes the improvement to the rise of Sunni awakening councils. That’s the term for Sunni groups that have turned against al-Qaida and now provide security in their home areas.
Speaking on Iraq television, al-Shahristani says attacks dropped from [...]

Iraq invited bids from local and international companies for two new oil tankers and another for chemical products.
The country’s fleet of oil tankers was devastated by tit-for-tat shelling during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and by attacks during the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf War.
Last year, Iraq signed a $65 million contract with China to buy three oil [...]

Wellex Mining Corp. of plastics king William Gatchalian is investing P473 million for an ore project in Dinagat Province.
The project involves the production of beneficiated nickel ore for exports to Macau, Japan, China, Taiwan and India.
The mining facility will have a capacity of 1.2 million wet metric tons of beneficiated nickel ore per year.
It will [...]

Two of Mexico’s main oil ports were closed by bad weather and heavy rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur.
The Gulf ports of Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas because of strong winds and rough seas. The third major port on the Gulf, Pajaritos, remained open.
Mexico exports roughly 1.7 million barrels of oil a day, [...]

Orissa-based Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) is set to export bauxite powder overseas from the Deep Water Port with the setting up of three silos here.
Kakinada Sea Port Limited (KSPL), in association with Chettinad Port Limited, had constructed these silos at an investment of Rs 80 crore, which have a capacity of 67,500 tonnes. Around 20,000 [...]

Mexico’s state-run oil company says output fell 9 percent to 2.87 million barrels a day in the first four months of the year, as production at its biggest oil field sagged.
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said output from its main Cantarell oil field dropped by 416,000 barrels a day, or 26 percent, from the same period last [...]

The export of metals and minerals is expected to grow in the coming financial year as mining projects expand or start production to capture demand from the urbanisation and industrialisation of emerging economies.
The federal government said in its 2007/08 budget papers that “non-rural commodity exports are expected to grow” as new projects and expansions come [...]