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Italian Steel, August Down By 3.5%: Long Products Weaken, Flat Products Recover
Italian steel production closes August with another decline, but retains a positive balance for the first eight months of 2026. National output stands at 793 thousand tonnes of steel, down 3.5% compared with August 2025, while the cumulative total since January...
Aluminium, Alba Returns To 80% Of Capacity: The Gulf Recovery Tests Logistics
Aluminium Bahrain is back to producing at around 80% of its pre-war capacity, but the industrial recovery continues to depend on a supply chain under pressure. According to sources gathered on the sidelines of Commodity Evolution’s International Aluminium Conference...
Red Sea, More Ships Head Towards Suez As Energy Risks Rise: Freight Rates Fall On European Routes
Shipping lines are increasing Red Sea passages just as tensions over route security and energy markets are rising again. Container shipping thus finds itself caught between two pressures: geopolitical risk along one of the world’s main trade corridors and the cost of...
Aluminium Scrap, Industry Divided: Germany Calls For A Duty Of At Least 30%, BIR Urges Caution
The shift from an aluminium-specific trade measure to waste-shipment rules does not convince Aluminium Deutschland. The German association believes the European Commission’s new approach is insufficient to contain scrap outflows from the Union and continues to call...