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The Detroit Auto Show: Running on Alternative Fuels

Here at the Detroit auto show, a wide range of car companies are setting out plans to push alternative fuels, particularly ethanol and diesel, as a means of increasing fuel economy, cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and burnishing their green credentials with increasingly environment-minded consumers.

14  January  2008

Analysis - India, China, Russia:next drivers of world growth

Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has his pet theme these days: the mass of global economic architecture is shifting to Asia, particularly the emerging economies.

14  January  2008

GE boosts "green" energy plans.

General Electric will today announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to Dollars 6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution.

14  January  2008      Комментарии: 1

Russia's Surging Economy

With the firm belief that, especially in Russia, past is prologue, the first and most important economic trend of 2007 was that nation's continued political and economic stability. This has made possible, and will continue to enable, reliable forecasts of economic trends, and has attracted a great deal of foreign investment in Russia.

Such an ongoing process has also caused Russian entrepreneurs to maintain and increase their domestic investments, rather than invest abroad, as they did before. Moreover, it has resulted in job creation and stimulated economic growth, which is now approaching 8%.

12  January  2008

Nizhniy Novgorod to witness enterprise for bioethanol production

An enterprises for bioethanol production — ecologically friendly, high-antiknock fuel (raw materials for which renewed natural resources: grain crops, potato, sugar beet, and also straw and even bushes) could become perspective for development of Nizhniy Novgorod's agriculture and economy.

10  January  2008

Russian Federation: Wheat Export Tariff Raised to 40 Percent

The Russian export tariff on wheat and meslin will be raised to 40% ad valorem but not less than 105 Euros per metric ton, a prohibitive level, effective January 28, 2008 to April 30, 2008. This will shut off wheat exports. Barley exports have already been effectively cut off by a previously imposed 30% ad valorem export tariff.

8  January  2008

Bulgarian Sugar Refinery Zaharni Zavodi Sees Alcohol Output up 57% in 2008

Bulgaria's largest sugar producer Zaharni Zavodi plans to raise its alcohol output by 57% to 11 million litres this year, it said on Monday.

7  January  2008      Комментарии: 2

Cereals soar as exporters hoard their harvests

Russia reported a near five-fold increase on cereals export duties for the next three months from E22 ($37) to E105 ($177) per tonne, a move that effectively removes Moscow from the international market.

7  January  2008

Agreement assures feedstocks for 550m litre Belarus ethanol plant

4  January  2008

Russian Federation Grain and Feed

Grain production estimate for Russia is raised by 550,000 metric tons to 80.95 million metric tons (mmt) due to increased production estimate for non-reported crops, especially rye. The wheat production estimate is 48.2 mmt, barley — 16.5. mmt, and corn — 3.9 mmt. Grain exports for June-December have reached 11.7 — 11.8 mmt, and the MY grain export forecast has been raised to 13.3 mmt, including 12.0 mmt of wheat and wheat flour, 1.05 mmt of barley, and 0.25 mmt of corn and rye. An export ban or prohibitive export tariff on wheat is expected to be imposed from the end of January through March 2008.

2  January  2008      Комментарии: 2