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09/06/2014 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 117,170 tonnes of cargo comprising 88,572 tonnes of import cargo and 28,598 tonnes of export cargo including 7,005 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 88,572 tonnes comprised of 60,415 tonnes of containerised cargo; 24,129 tonnes of general cargo and 4,028 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

09/06/2014 (Jakarta Globe)- Indonesia has become more resilient when it comes to food security in the last five years, although there is still room for improvements, a top official has said.

09/06/2014 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will witness the signing of five documents that will further strengthen the existing close bilateral and trade relations between both countries during his second official visit to Turkmenistan beginning Monday.

09/06/2014 (Nigerian Ttibune) - Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State has planted more than 5,000 oil palm seedlings in an effort to boost agriculture.

09/06/2014 (Bernama) - The value of agricultural exports from Peru totaled US$ 1.4 billion in the first four months of 2014, representing a 24.3 percent increase over the same period last year, the country's Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry (Minagri) said.

09/06/2014 (AllAfrica.com) - The production of palm oil will begin in the 6,384 hectares Wilmer Calaro Oil Palm Estate in Mbarakom, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River in 2016.

09/06/2014 (The Star) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Monday.

09/06/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian palm oil futures on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives were slightly higher on Monday ahead of the official MPOB data due on Tuesday on stocks, production and exports.

07/06/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures edged lower on Friday to record their third straight weekly fall, as a stronger ringgit and weaker soyoil markets continued to drag, along with the prospect of bigger stockpiles.

07/06/2014 (The Star) - Palm oil exporters may have to experience yet another hard time as another anti-palm oil move is heating up in France.

07/06/2014 (Jakarta Globe) - The Indonesian government plans to initiate talks on a preferential trade agreement with the Turkish government in a move that would bring Indonesia’s crude palm oil on par with those of Malaysia, the world’s second-largest CPO producer, according to Trade Minister M. Lutfi.

07/06/2014 (Bernama) - Diversified conglomerate Oriental Holdings Bhd plans to increase its oil palm plantation landbank especially in Indonesia, says group chief financial officer Adrian Wong Tet Look.