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Transport Infrastructure
Aug 20, 2025

Trafigura and its consortium aim to complete the US loan agreement by 2025

Lobito Atlantic Railway's (LAR) CEO said that the company aims to complete by the end this year a loan agreement worth $533 million with the U.S. International...

Transportation
Aug 20, 2025

Karpowership, a Turkish ship, will supply Iraq with 590 MW maximum of electricity

The Turkish company Karpowership announced on Wednesday that it had signed a contract to supply Iraq with 590 megawatts to stabilize its national grid. Iraq, a member...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 20, 2025

Wall Street Journal August 20,

These are the most popular stories from the Wall Street Journal. These stories have not been verified and we cannot vouch their accuracy. Ancora, an activist investor,...

Oil Pipeline
Aug 20, 2025

Slovakia confirms that it will receive oil through the Druzhba Pipeline again

The Druzhba Pipeline is now supplying oil to Slovakia, according to the Slovak Economy Ministry late on Tuesday. This was after a drone strike by Ukraine on...

Transportation
Aug 19, 2025

Ukrainian attack cuts off power in Russia's Zaporizhzhia

The Moscow-installed Governor said that a drone attack by Ukraine late Tuesday night knocked out the power in areas of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Region under Russian control. Russian...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

Delta United sued for selling 'windowless seats'

Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and other airlines were sued by passengers on Tuesday who claimed that they had paid more money for "window" seating only to...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

Turkish Airlines has confirmed that Air Europa in Spain has accepted its offer to purchase a minority stake

Turkish Airlines announced on Tuesday that it has accepted its offer to acquire a minority stake of Spanish airline Air Europa. In June, the Turkish flag carrier...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

Air Canada's labor agreement could reshape the pay of North American airline crews

The latest blow to airline compensation systems that do not pay cabin crews fully for their work hours is a crippling strike of Air Canada flight attendants...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 19, 2025

Ancora urges CSX CEO to replace or pursue merger amid rail industry turmoil

Ancora Holdings urged CSX to either pursue merger options in the near future or to replace CEO Joe Hinrichs. The activist investor urged that the railroad evaluate...

South America
Aug 19, 2025

Petrobras subsidiary to launch tender for barges again in Brazil

Transpetro in Brazil, the logistics division of Petrobras, will relaunch an auction for barges following a low level of interest during a bidding process held in May,...

Natural Gas Pipeline
Aug 19, 2025

Musk's SpaceX and others win US Court challenge to the labor board's structural

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board structure was likely illegal, according to a U.S. appellate court that ruled on Tuesday. It also blocked the agency's ability to...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

Air Canada resumes service after the flight attendants union ends its strike

Air Canada's unionized cabin crew reached an agreement on Tuesday with Canada's largest airline, ending the first flight attendant strike in 40 years. The strike had disrupted...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

US threatens withholding transit funds due to New York subway safety concerns

If the U.S. Transportation Department does not improve, it could withhold up 25% of federal funding for New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's track maintenance workers. According to...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 19, 2025

Toms Capital wants CSX to meet after acquiring stakes, sources claim

People familiar with the situation said that Toms Capital Investment Management, a hedge fund, has asked to meet the board of U.S. railroad operator CSX, after buying...

LNG Transportation
Aug 19, 2025

Cameron LNG is undergoing maintenance; cargoes are not affected, the company claims

The company reported that the natural gas flow to the Cameron LNG Export Facility in Louisiana was significantly reduced on Tuesday, for the second day running. This...

Transportation
Aug 19, 2025

Berlin: Druzhba attacks only temporarily disrupted Germany's Kazakh crude oil imports.

The German Economy Ministry said that while the oil supplies to Germany via the Druzhba Pipeline from Kazakhstan were temporarily disrupted by Ukrainian attacks, they have been...

North America
Aug 19, 2025

Sheinbaum, Mexico's Sheinbaum, says there is no agreement between DEA and Mexico on 'Project Portero.

After the DEA announced the project, Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government had not reached an agreement with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration regarding an operation...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 19, 2025

Air Canada resumes service after the flight attendants union ends its strike

Air Canada's unionized cabin crew reached a deal with the nation's largest airline on Tuesday. This ended the first strike of its cabin staff in 40 years,...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 19, 2025

New rules slow down shipments from major Russian grain port

Sources in the industry said that new requirements for ship entry and inspection have significantly hindered Russian grain exports through Kavkaz on the Black Sea. These exports...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Oil prices rise as investors pay attention to Trump-Zelenskiy Meeting

After a failed U.S. -Russia summit on Friday in Alaska, oil prices rose 1% on Monday following talks between U.S. president Donald Trump and his Ukrainian equivalent....

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

Air Canada CEO said airline "amazed" over unlawful union strike

Air Canada's Chief Executive Mike Rousseau stated on Monday that he was "amazed by" the union of flight attendants who defied the Canada Industrial Relations Board which...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Zelenskiy meets with Trump at the White House

U.S. president Donald Trump announced on Monday that if a deal is reached to end Russia's conflict in Ukraine, the United States will "help" Europe provide security...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

Air Canada union boss prefers prison to being forced to end cabin staff strike

The union leaders who are on strike against Air Canada announced on Monday that they would rather risk jail than have the cabin crews ordered back to...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 18, 2025

Gupta lawyers do not appear at Trafigura fraud hearing

A London court heard that lawyers representing Indian businessman Prateek gupta failed to attend a hearing Monday due to funding problems in a longstanding fraud case brought...

LNG Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Gas demand at the two largest US LNG plants is declining

According to data provided by financial firm LSEG, two of the United States’ largest liquefied gas export plants experienced a major drop in natural gas demand on...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

Former New Hampshire Governor heads US airline lobbying group

The group announced Monday that former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu will be the new leader of the trade group Airlines for America. Sununu passed up the...

Oil Pipeline
Aug 18, 2025

Caspian Pipeline suspends one mooring for maintenance for 3 weeks

Caspian Pipeline Consortium announced on Monday that it halted operation at SMP-3 on August 15, for maintenance which could take up to 3 weeks. It added that...

Natural Gas Pipeline
Aug 18, 2025

BlackRock's GIP will take a stake in Eni’s carbon capture business

The infrastructure fund of U.S. asset management company BlackRock, GIP, has agreed to purchase a 49.99% share in Eni’s carbon capture-and-storage business (CCUS), said the Italian firm...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

TSX slips past Canada inflation data at Fed conference

Canada's main index of stocks fell on Monday, as investors stayed away from big bets in anticipation of the domestic inflation data that is due on Tuesday....

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Sources say that Lukoil Volgograd refinery has halted oil processing following drone attacks.

Two sources familiar with the situation said that Lukoil, a Russian oil company, shut down its Volgograd refinery after it was hit by drones. Ukraine intensified drone...

Natural Gas Pipeline
Aug 18, 2025

Kyiv reports that Ukraine and Azerbaijan are in negotiations on a gas import agreement.

Ukraine is in negotiations with Azerbaijan for gas imports from the South Caucasus nation this year, Kyiv’s energy minister announced on Monday. We are in the middle...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Google announces Tennessee for the site of a small modular nuclear reactor

Google and Kairos Power have selected Tennessee to build an advanced nuclear plant. The facility is expected to provide electricity for the Big Tech Company's data centres...

Oil Pipeline
Aug 18, 2025

Kyiv claims that Russia deliberately struck Azerbaijani SOCAR oil installations in Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials reported that Russian drones deliberately attacked an oil depot owned by the Azerbaijani State Oil Company SOCAR, in southern Odesa Region of Ukraine on Monday...

West Africa
Aug 18, 2025

Maersk contains fire onboard Marie Maersk vessel off Liberia; intensifies firefighting efforts

Danish shipping company Maersk announced on Monday that the fire on board Marie Maersk, which broke out last Wednesday off Liberia, had stopped spreading and that further...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Eletrobras and C3 AI partner to modernize Brazil’s power grid

The two companies announced on Monday that Eletrobras, a Brazilian power company, has partnered up with C3 AI in order to use artificial intelligence for the operation...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 18, 2025

Exporters' association reports that Ivory Coast cocoa fell 31.2% in July compared to the same period last year.

The Ivory Coast cocoa grinding fell 31.2% on an annual basis in July, to 39,301 metric tonnes, according to data released by the exporters' association GEPEX. Grinders...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Azerbaijani oil exports through BTC pipeline fell 5.9% year-on-year amid contamination

Azerbaijani statistics showed that Azerbaijan exported 16.2 million tons of oil via the Baku, Tbilisi, and Ceyhan pipelines in January-July, a drop of 5.9% compared to a...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

China's CNAF invests in private Chinese SAF factory

China National Aviation Fuel Company announced on Monday that it had agreed to purchase a stake in a sustainable biofuel plant owned by Henan Junheng Industry Group...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

After the Ukrainian attack, Budapest has said that Russian oil flow to Hungary has been halted.

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto stated on Monday that the Russian crude oil flow to Hungary was halted following an attack by Ukraine on a...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 18, 2025

Gulf shares fluctuate on Fed rate cuts uncertainty

Gulf stocks had a mixed start to the trading session on Monday, as investors grew cautious in anticipation of this week's Jackson Hole Symposium for clues about...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Mumbai's streets are flooded by heavy rains in India

Mumbai, India's financial hub, was pounded by heavy rains on Monday. Flights were disrupted, roads were flooded and schools closed. The weather department reported that some parts...

Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Azerbaijani oil exports through BTC pipeline fell 5.9% year-on-year amid contamination

Azerbaijani statistics showed that Azerbaijan exported 16.2 million tons of oil via the Baku, Tbilisi, and Ceyhan pipelines between January and July, a 5.9% decline from the...

North America
Aug 18, 2025

Take Five: Jackson Hole to Anchorage

Stock-market bulls are not facing any major obstacles at the moment, but the events following the U.S./Russia Summit in Alaska, the central bank party in Wyoming, and...

LNG Transportation
Aug 18, 2025

Data shows that LNG cargoes from the Arctic LNG 2 project sanctioned travel east

According to Kpler's and LSEG's ship tracking data, four liquefied gas (LNG), tankers, carrying cargoes from Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Plant, sanctioned for Moscow's conflict in Ukraine,...

Transport Infrastructure
Aug 18, 2025

Firefly Aerospace to launch rockets in Japan for Asia

Firefly Aerospace, the U.S. rocket manufacturer expanding its satellite launch services worldwide, is looking at the option of launching its Alpha rocket in Japan. A Japanese company...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

Qantas will pay a record fine of $58m for sackings due to pandemics, criticised by a judge

A court in Australia ordered Australia's biggest airline, Qantas Airways to pay A$90m ($58.64m) on Monday for illegally terminating 1,800 staff members during the COVID-19 epidemic and...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 18, 2025

Air Canada grounded after union refuses to return to work

Air Canada's fleet remained grounded Monday morning, after hundreds of planes were grounded due to a strike by flight attendants who refused to go back to work...

Asia
Aug 18, 2025

This week in Asian Football

Discussion points on Asian football this week: KYOTO MOVE INTO POLE POSITION IN J-LEAGUE WITH TOKYO WIN Kyoto Sanga beat Tokyo Verdy by a score of 1-0...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 17, 2025

Qantas fined 58 million dollars for illegally dismissing 1,800 employees during pandemic

Qantas Airways Australia's largest carrier was fined A$90m ($58.64m) on Monday for illegally firing 1,800 ground staff during the COVID-19 epidemic and replacing them with contractors. Michael...

Passenger Transportation Services
Aug 17, 2025

Air Canada resumes flights following directive ending strike

Air Canada will resume flights Sunday, after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board acted upon a directive by the country's Minister of Jobs Patty Hajdu. The board acted...