Berita Arkib

21/05/2012 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 106,520 tonnes of cargo comprising 76,276 tonnes of import cargo and 30,244 tonnes of export cargo including 5,362 loaded & empty containers during last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Saturday.

21/05/2012 (Borneo Post) - The total trade in 2011 was by far the highest total trade ever recorded by Malaysia reaching RM1.27 trillion, an increase of 8.7 per cent compared with 2010 which recorded RM1.17 trillion.

21/05/2012 (Triple Pundit) - A partnership between Nestlé, The Forest Trust and a leading palm oil supplier may have created a new model for more sustainability.

19/05/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended almost flat on Friday after hitting a near 5-month low, as lingering worries over Greece\'s potential exit from the euro zone dampened investors\' risk appetite.

19/05/2012 (Mongabay.com) - The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that palm oil-based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

19/05/2012 (Coastweek) - Palm oil production in Cameroon will increase by 55,000 tons to 265,000 tons this year, up from last year’s 210,000 tons, thanks mainly to an increase in output from small-scale farmers in the Central African country’s southwestern and littoral regions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER).

19/05/2012 (LDPBusiness) - New Britain Palm Oil has completed the acquisition of the remaining stakes in a palm oil concern based in Papua New Guinea.

19/05/2012 (Biofuels Digest) - In Washington, the Obama Administration will tussle shortly over the future of palm oil-based biofuels in the US. At issue: whether both direct and indirect land use change that is the result of palm’s expansion in Indonesia, should be enough to ban the otherwise climate-friendly feedstock from the US.

19/05/2012 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil had the biggest weekly decline in more than 5 months, on concern that Europe’s worsening crisis may stall global economic growth and cut demand for commodities.

19/05/2012 (Bernama) - Shares on Bursa Malaysia are likely to dip further amid persistent worries over the global economy, analysts said.

19/05/2012 (AllAfrica.com) - Accra — A primary reason for Ghana's cocoa and oil palm production decline is the killing of pollinating insects by pesticides used on farms, says a study.

18/05/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures regained ground on Thursday after steep losses the previous day, but traders remained cautious on concerns a possible Greek exit from the euro zone could heighten risk of a global recession and hurt commodity demand.