Posts Tagged ‘ supplies ’

Grading scheme to benefit Vietnamese coffee exports 

October 7, 2011
Grading scheme to benefit Vietnamese coffee exports 

Workers sort through green robusta coffee beans for defects at a processing plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam. Major commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam, a move that experts believe will [...]

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Agricultural exports falter despite high prices 

September 4, 2011
Agricultural exports falter despite high prices 

Farmers transport rice after harvesting it outside Hanoi. Vietnam is expected to export a record 7.3 million tons of rice this year. The prices of many agricultural products are rising in the world market, but Vietnamese exporters may not be able to capitalize on this opportunity because their stocks are thin. Coffee prices have surged [...]

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Vietnam yanks reins on runaway coffee industry 

March 24, 2011
Vietnam yanks reins on runaway coffee industry 

A visitor at a coffee festival in Buon Ma Thuot checks out Arabica and Robusta coffee beans from Trung Nguyen, a major Vietnamese coffee exporter Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest coffee producer, should limit coffee production to roughly 1.2 million tons a year to prevent price falls, an industry official said. Luong Van Tu, chairman of [...]

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Jet fuel firm's appeal against fine rejected 

January 3, 2011
Jet fuel firm's appeal against fine rejected 

Jetstar Pacific Airlines had it fuel supplies cut off by Vinapco on April 1, 2008 A court in Hanoi on Wednesday rejected an appeal by fuel supplier Vietnam Air Petrol against a decision ordering it to pay a VND3.4-billion fine for cutting off supplies to a local carrier. The Hanoi People’s Court said the penalty [...]

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Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

January 17, 2010
Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

A resident carries Samael Jachond, who was rescued from the remains of his house, four days after the earthquake Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people. Haiti’s shell-shocked government [...]

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Fuel firm promises supplies to struggling airline

November 21, 2009
Fuel firm promises supplies to struggling airline

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam Air Petrol Company said it would continue to supply fuel to Indochina Airlines despite the company’s crippling debt and financial troubles.  LookAtVietnam – Vietnam Air Petrol Company said it would continue to supply fuel to Indochina Airlines despite the company’s crippling debt and financial troubles.  The state-owned fuel supplier, also known as [...]

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Fuel firm promises supplies to struggling airline

November 20, 2009
Fuel firm promises supplies to struggling airline

Indochina Airlines’ sole airplane Vietnam Air Petrol Company said it would continue to supply fuel to Indochina Airlines despite the company’s crippling debt and financial troubles. The state-owned fuel supplier, also known as Vinapco, said it would sell fuel to Indochina when the carrier resumes its service later this month only on a pay in [...]

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Vietnam rice exports may top record by 20 percent this year

November 18, 2009
Vietnam rice exports may top record by 20 percent this year

Rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest shipper, may exceed the previous record by 20 percent this year, even as the total value of exports is forecast to drop. Shipments are expected to be 6 million to 6.2 million metric tons, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang told the National Assembly in Hanoi [...]

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India may import rice, fueling ‘panic,’ IRRI says

October 29, 2009
India may import rice, fueling ‘panic,’ IRRI says

India, the world’s second-largest rice grower, may become a net importer for the first time in 21 years in 2010, potentially sparking the kind of “panic” that sent prices to records in 2008, a rice expert said. India may import as much as 3 million metric tons next year after the wet season harvest plunged, [...]

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Rice production in India to slump on drought, FAO says

October 8, 2009
Rice production in India to slump on drought, FAO says

Drought in India may slash rice output in the world’s second-largest grower by about 18 percent this year, cutting global supplies available for importers, a United Nations official said. “Unless there is a lot of rain that allows them to replenish the reservoir, even the coming crop will be affected,” Concepcion Calpe, senior economist at [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...