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China's first batch of 2025 fuel export quota flat vs a year earlier
China has issued 19 million metric lots of export quotas for fuel, diesel and aviation fuel under the batch of allowances for 2025, a level that is consistent versus a year previously, several traders and a. Chinese market consultancy said on Wednesday. China manages its refined oil exports via a rigorous quota. system, using exports as a tool to balance and make sure the. domestic market is sufficiently provided. State-owned oil firms Sinopec and CNPC, the essential receivers of. these quotas, were provided a combined 13.34-million-ton. allowances, or 70% out of the 19 million lots, according to. traders and consultancy JLC. On the other hand, personal refiner Zhejiang Petrochemical Corp was. awarded 1.67 million tons of export quotas in this batch. Independently, China has likewise launched 8 million tons of. low-sulfur marine fuel export quotas for the very first problem of. 2025, likewise flat compared with a year ago, traders and JLC said. Of the total, around 90% were allotted to Sinopec and CNPC. For the first 11 months of 2024, China's exports of refined. oil items - consisting of primarily gas, diesel, aviation fuel. and marine bunker - totalled 54.4 million lots, down 6.3% versus. the matching period of 2023.
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Japan Airlines struck by cyberattack, causing some delays to its flights
Japan Airlines (JAL). stated on Thursday it was hit by a cyberattack that caused delays. to some domestic and global flights. The attack started at 7:24 a.m. (2224 GMT) and affected the. business's internal and external systems, JAL said. The company. stated it momentarily closed down a router that was triggering system. breakdowns and also suspended ticket sales for flights. departing on Thursday. ANA Holdings, Japan's other significant air carrier, saw. no signs of an attack on its systems, a representative stated. Earlier this week, American Airlines briefly. grounded all flights for an hour, disrupting travel for. thousands on Christmas Eve, due to a technical glitch including. its network hardware.
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Dead body discovered in wheel well after United flight lands in Hawaii
A dead body was discovered in the wheel well of a United Airlines jetliner after the aircraft landed in the Hawaiian island of Maui, the airline company said on Wednesday. The body was found in the among the compartments that homes the plane's landing gear when United Flight 202 from Chicago O'Hare International Airport landed at Kahului Airport on Tuesday afternoon, according to the airline company's site. No even more information about the departed person were supplied. The wheel well was just accessible from outside of the airplane. At this time, it is not clear how or when the person accessed the wheel well, it said. United stated it was dealing with authorities on the investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration did not right away respond to a request for remark. Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel-houses and cargo holds of airplanes can face temperature levels of in between minus 50 degrees and minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 58 and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit), in addition to a lack of oxygen. While the casualty rate for most wheel-well stowaways is high, some people have actually made it through the ordeal. A person was discovered alive in the undercarriage bay of an Algerian carrier's aircraft in Paris in 2015. In January 2022, a stowaway was discovered alive in the wheel section under the front of a Cargolux freight plane that arrived at Amsterdam's. Schiphol Airport from Africa.
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Finland authorities investigate function of foreign ship after power cable television outage
Finnish police said on Thursday they are examining whether a foreign ship was involved in the damage of an undersea power cable television linking Finland and Estonia following an abrupt blackout on Wednesday. Baltic Sea countries are on high alert for potential acts of sabotage following a string of outages of power cable televisions, telecom links and gas pipelines given that 2022, although subsea equipment is also based on technical malfunction and mishaps. The 658 megawatt (MW) Estlink 2 power interconnector remains offline following the outage that began at midday local time on Wednesday, leaving only the 358 MW Estlink 1 in operation in between the 2 nations, operator Fingrid stated. The cops, in cooperation with the Border Guard and other authorities, are examining the chain of events of the incident, Finnish police said in a declaration. Investigators were probing the potential role of a foreign ship, cops stated without calling the vessel. Authorities in Sweden are on the other hand leading an investigation into the breach last month of two Baltic Sea telecom cables, in an incident German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has actually stated he assumed was caused by sabotage. Separately, Finnish police continue to examine damage caused last year to the Balticconnector gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia, along with several telecoms cable televisions, and have said this was most likely brought on by a ship dragging its anchor. In 2022 the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream gas pipelines running along the seabed in the very same waters were blown up, in a. case still under examination by Germany.
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New York taxi jumps walkway outside Macy's on Christmas Day, injuring 7
Seven people were injured in New York City on Christmas Day when a taxi jumped a pathway and hit pedestrians outside a Macy's outlet store after the cab driver suffered a medical episode, authorities said on Wednesday. The occurrence happened in Midtown Manhattan near Macy's. flagship store in Herald Square near the corner of West 34th. Street and Avenue of the Americas, or Sixth Avenue. The store,. with its elaborately embellished display windows, is a magnet for. tourists and native Brand-new Yorkers around the holidays. In addition to the 58-year-old taxi driver, the injured. consisted of a 9-year-old young boy, two females aged 49 and four other. women aged 19, 37 and 41, cops added. One 49-year-old woman with a leg injury, the 9-year-old young boy. who suffered a cut and the 41-year-old lady who sustained an. injury to her head were taken to medical facility, authorities stated. The remaining 3 pedestrians declined medical attention,. according to cops, which added that all injuries were. non-life-threatening. Media pictures of the taxi revealed a heavily broken car. with broken parts and damages all over it.
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More than 200,000 homes without power in Bosnia after Balkan snowstorm
More than 200,000 homes across Bosnia and Herzegovina were without electrical power for a. 2nd day on Wednesday, authorities stated, after a snowstorm the. day before triggered widespread disturbance throughout numerous Balkan. countries. Primarily in northwestern and central Bosnia, towns and. towns suffered continuous power outages, the nation's 2 power. energies stated. The snowfall had actually stopped on Wednesday, when the Catholic. population was commemorating Christmas, however lots of roadways stayed. blocked, cutting off access to towns and towns. Our teams are on website all the time, doing everything in. their power, Jelena Markovic, representative for the. Elektroprenos BiH distribution company, said. Many transmission. lines were in inaccessible locations, she stated. In neighbouring Croatia, emergency situation teams stated they rescued. 48 individuals who had actually been buried in the snow in the central Lika. area. In Slovenia, authorities stated strong winds and snow made it. impossible for a rescue helicopter to reach a Hungarian hiker. who has been stranded in the Alps given that Sunday. As many as 10,000 homes were also without electrical energy for. much of Wednesday in western Serbia, the Tanjug news company. priced estimate Ivan Spajic, the head of the department for emergency situations. in the town of Sabac as saying, although the issue was mostly. restored by late in the day.
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Russian ship that sank off Spanish coast was exploded in 'act of terrorism,' RIA points out owner
A Russian freight ship that ran into difficulty on Monday in the Mediterranean Sea and later on sank was rocked by a series of 3 surges in an act of terrorism, state news firm RIA cited the vessel's owner as saying on Wednesday. Russia's Foreign Ministry stated on Tuesday that the Ursa. Significant, built in 2009, sank after an explosion ripped through. its engine space and that 2 of its 16 crew were missing. RIA cited Oboronlogistika, the ship's ultimate owner and a. business that becomes part of the Russian Defence Ministry's military. building operations, as stating on Wednesday that the vessel. had actually been targeted in a terrorist act. It cited Oboronlogistika as stating that the ship's making it through. 14 team members had actually reported that 3 successive explosions. on the ship's starboard side had detonated at 1350 Moscow time. ( 1050 GMT) in the vessel's aft on Dec. 23. The ship had then started to sharply list as it was. undoubtedly taking in water, RIA cited Oboronlogistika as saying. The ship was not overloaded, it added. It was carrying two giant port cranes on its deck with. their loading buckets, two heavy hatch covers for ice-breaking. vessels, 129 empty containers, and a 20-foot container with. roof devices, RIA said. Oboronlogistika had said that the ship had actually been en path. to the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok. Oboronlogistika and SK-Yug, a company LSEG lists as part of. the group and the ship's direct owner and operator, declined to. talk about the sinking at the time. Both entities were positioned. under sanctions by the United States in 2022 for their ties to. Russia's military as was the Ursa Major itself. Spain's Maritime Rescue Service stated it had received a. call for help from the Ursa Major on Monday when it was. located about 57 miles off the coast of Almeira. Two vessels and a helicopter had been sent to the scene. and the 14 making it through team members taken to the Spanish port of. Cartagena. LSEG ship tracking information reveals the vessel departed from. the Russian port of St. Petersburg on Dec. 11 and was last seen. sending a signal at 2204 GMT on Monday in between Algeria and Spain. where it sank. On leaving St. Petersburg it had actually suggested that its next. port of call was the Russian port of Vladivostok, not the Syrian. port of Tartous which it has called at in the past.
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Finland examines outage of undersea power link to Estonia, Finnish PM says
Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday authorities in his nation were investigating an undersea power cable television outage on a line connecting Finland and Estonia. An unplanned break in service on the Estlink 2 interconnector occurred at 1026 GMT, operator Fingrid stated in a. declaration on the Nordpool regulatory website, lowering its. offered capability to 358 megawatts (MW) from a set up. capacity of 1,016 MW. Even at Christmas the authorities are on standby to. examine the matter, Orpo stated in a post on X. The interruption did not affect Finland's electrical energy. supply, he included. Authorities in the region have been on high alert for. potential acts of sabotage following a string of failures of. power cable televisions, gas pipelines and telecom links in the Baltic Sea. in recent years, although subsea cable televisions are likewise subject to. technical breakdowns and blackouts brought on by accidents. An investigation into the occurrence has been started,. Fingrid control room manager Arto Pahki stated in a declaration. At the time of the interruption the electricity had been flowing. in the instructions from Finland to Estonia at a rate of 658 MW,. Fingrid said.
Russia's domestic LPG costs halve following EU embargo
Domestic rates of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Russia cut in half in December from the previous month due to an influx of the fuel, exports of which have been suppressed by European sanctions, Reuters computations showed.
The European Union's sanctions against Russia's LPG took result on Dec. 20. The limitations were proposed in 2015 by Poland, one of Russia's largest LPG importers.
LPG, or propane and butane, is primarily used as fuel for vehicles, heating and to produce other petrochemicals.
A sharp rise of LPG products to the domestic market caused a. collapse in wholesale rates in Russia to around 14,000 roubles. ($ 140) per metric load in December from 28,000 roubles at the end. of November, according to Reuters computations based upon trading. sources and information from a regional commodity exchange.
Exports are more profitable and Russia could earn approximately $230. per lot from products to Poland.
Still, some types of Russian LPG are eligible for exports,. however represent around a fifth of total LPG, which Russia utilized. to export.
Russia has increased LPG exports in recent months to China,. Mongolia, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, according to industry. sources. Traders said that Russia's exports to China have. potential for additional development.
Russia also exports LPG to Afghanistan, though the market. participants say the materials are constrained by issues with. payments.
We would be all set to provide it there, however our Afghan. partners are prepared to pay only in cash. And after that what should. we do with this 'money'? Extra concerns and problems may. develop while bringing it back to the Russian Federation, a. trader said.
(source: Reuters)