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Zacks.com, November 19, 2018: Emerson Electric Co. ( EMR -  Free Report) recently unveiled its state-of-the-art gasketed and enclosed Light Emitting Diode (LED) luminaire - Appleton Contender LED. Taking the company's operational efficiency, employee safety and lighting performance a notch higher, luminaire will likely bring maintenance and energy savings up to 65% in difficult low clearance areas like catwalks, tunnels, walkways and stairwells.  Read more...

Offshore-technology.com, November 20, 2018: The TurkStream pipeline system that will transport Russian gas across the Black Sea to Turkey has achieved a key milestone with the completion of its offshore section. Russian state-owned oil and gas company Gazprom is building the TurkStream project with two 930km-long parallel offshore pipelines with a combined capacity of 31.5 billion cubic metres of gas a year. While the first pipeline will deliver gas to Turkey, the second will cater to European countries.  Read more...

Washingtonpost.com, November 19, 2018: The prime ministers of Vietnam and Russia agreed Monday to nearly triple their countries' two-way trade to $10 billion by 2020 from $3.55 billion last year. Speaking to reporters after talks in Hanoi, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the countries will expand their cooperation in the oil and gas industries and transportation. "We emphasized that energy companies from Russia and Vietnam have had successful cooperation and we wish that cooperation will continue to be consolidated," Medvedev said through a translator.  Read more...

Hellenicshippingnews.com, November 21, 2018: China National Offshore Oil Co, or CNOOC, offloaded a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo on Nov. 11 shipped from Yamal, first of its kind the Chinese firm received from the Russian Arctic gas project, CNOOC said on its website. The cargo, purchased from Russian firm Novatek, was delivered into CNOOC's receiving terminal in Putian of southeastern province of Fujian.  Read more...

Urdupoint.com, November 21, 2018: Russia and  South Africa have signed a cooperation program for exploration, production and processing of minerals until 2025, as well as a  road map for projects concerning platinum group metals,  Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin said on Wednesday. "Today, a  road map has been signed for the implementation of priority areas of cooperation with the Republic of  South Africa in the field of cooperation on platinum group metals, as well as a program of Russian-South African cooperation in the field of exploration, mining, processing, and processing of mineral resources for the period up to 2025," Kobylkin said in the framework of the Russian-South African Intergovernmental Commission.  Read more...

Blackseagrain.net, November 20, 2018: Chinese company Tien Ji is going to invest RUB 200 Ml in the project of a joint venture in Priargunsky and Kaltansky districts of Zabaykalsky region. It procures and purchases coarse feeds for the livestock sector, reports  UkrAgroConsult. The project is part of the Social and Economic Development Strategy of Priargunsky district until 2030, which provides not only for purchasing hay from business entities and individuals for its export to China, but also for grain growing and rapeseed processing.   These changes are expected to promote more effective use of farmlands.  Read more...

Tass.com, November 20, 2018: Vietnam is considering the possibility of giving permission to 28 Russian companies to supply livestock products to the country, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance said on Tuesday. "Currently, the Vietnamese State Administration for Supervision and Control over the Quality of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products is considering the possibility of granting the right to 28 Russian companies to supply livestock products," the Russian watchdog said. According to the service, Russia is interested in the Vietnamese food market and is working to increase the number of enterprises supplying beef and poultry to Vietnam, as well as to start the export of pork and eggs.The Veterinary service is also working to increase imports of fish products from Vietnam. In particular, the right to supply cod, tilapia and shrimp to a number of Vietnamese companies.  Read more...

Mondovisione.com, November 20, 2018: On 20-21 November, Moscow Exchange is hosting the China session of the annual Moscow Exchange Forum. Again, this year, MOEX is partnering with Shanghai Stock Exchange to host the event. This year's forum takes place in two cities: Shanghai (20 November) and Beijing (21 November). Representatives of Chinese banks, investment funds, leading Russian corporates (RUSAL, Novatek, Sibur, Severstal and Moscow Credit Bank) and some of Russia's largest investment banks (VTB Capital, Gazprombank and Sova Capital) will participate in the forum.  Read more...

Montelnews.com, November 20, 2018: Russian coal exports to Europe via Latvia's key port of Riga rose by 15% in the first 10 months of the year to 11.6m tonnes, amid restricted domestic Russian port capacity, port data showed on Tuesday. Exports averaged 38,000t/day over the period compared with 33,000t/day in January-October 2017, despite an unofficial government clamp-down on exports via Latvia.  Read more...

Admtyumen.ru, November 20, 2018: The expected tourist flow to the Tyumen region within the Imperial Route project is estimated at more than 1,300 people by the end of 2018. The first tourist group for this project consisted of 24 people; it arrived to the Tyumen region in May 2018. In total, from July to October 2018, tourists from 16 Russian regions (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Khanty-Mansiysk, Yekaterinburg and others) and several foreign countries such as Canada, Serbia, Australia, Estonia, and others have traveled along this route.  Read more...

Tass.com, November 20, 2018: Moscow and Bishkek have succeeded in giving their bilateral trade a boost in 2018 that is close to 20% more than last year, Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Kyrgyz President's Office, Daniyar Sydykov, said on Tuesday. "We can see a trend towards trade growth between our countries. The rise in trade volume totaled 19% when compared to last year, and expectations are that it will continue its upward trend," he stated, pointing out that Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov had travelled to Russia on his first foreign trip.   Read more...

Azernews.az, November 19, 2018: Azerbaijan and Russia will develop gas fields in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, a source in the Centralized Analytical Laboratory of the High Tech Park LLC of Azerbaijan's National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) told Trend. The two countries will develop mothballed gas fields that Russia and Azerbaijan couldn't use due to the lack of division of the Caspian Sea into sectors. "In the middle of this year, at the level of state circles, an agreement was reached that Azerbaijan can build two platforms there," the source said. "The existence of such an agreement already says a lot and it will probably become a project for next year."  Read more...

Regnum.ru, 20 ноября, 2018: Внешнеторговый оборот России за январь-сентябрь 2018 года вырос на 20,1% и составил $500,9 млрд. Экспорт вырос на 27,9% до $325,4 млрд, импорт - на 7,8% до $175,5 млрд. Доля экспорта в товарообороте за девять месяцев увеличилась до 65% с 61% в 2017 году, доля импорта снизилась до 35% с 39%. Такие данные приводятся в докладе Минэкономразвития РФ. Товарооборот с Евросоюзом увеличился на 21,5%, при этом прирост экспорта составил 29,0%, импорта - 7,4%. На второй строчке по объему внешнеторгового оборота страны Азиатско-Тихоокеанского экономического сотрудничества. Торговый оборот со странами АТЭС увеличился на 21,3%, в том числе экспорт - на 35,5%, импорт - на 8,0%.  Читать далее...

Eastrussia.ru, 19 ноября, 2018: Китай и Россия определили приоритетные направления торгово-экономического сотрудничества на Дальнем Востоке. Это газо- и нефтехимическая промышленность, добыча полезных ископаемых, транспорт и логистика, сельское и лесное хозяйства, аквакультура и туризм.  Как сообщает пресс-служба Минвостокразвития, для реализации программы развития Российско-Китайского сотрудничества в торгово-экономической и инвестиционных сферах на Дальнем Востоке до 2025 года министерство коммерции КНР планирует сотрудничать с разными российскими ведомствами, финансовыми структурами, отраслевыми ассоциациями.  Читать далее...

Finmarket.ru, 19 ноября, 2018: В июле-октябре, по предварительным данным, экспорт составил 20,227 тыс. тонн против 15,779 тыс. тонн за аналогичный период прошлого года, сообщила "Интерфаксу" заместитель гендиректора Института конъюнктуры аграрного рынка (ИКАР) Ирина Глазунова. Эти данные учитывают поставки в страны Евразийского экономического союза, которые остаются стабильными. Динамику общего показателя определяет экспорт за пределы ЕАЭС. В июле-октябре этого года он составил 19,9 тыс. тонн против 15,3 тыс. тонн годом ранее. В частности, в августе крупными покупателями российской гречихи были Китай, Бельгия, Япония, Польша, Сербия.  Читать далее...