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  • The big challenges

    As delegates gather for this year's European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unrealf or 99.9 per cent recurring of us), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We've dealt with: *Oil-price volatility...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2008
  • The world is round after all

    I asked my boss two years ago what were his favourite business books. His list included The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman. Of course I rushed out and bought the book. It has sold by the truck load and was quoted by Mohamed Al-Mady of SABIC during his speech at...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008
  • Uncle Sam back from the dead?

    A very interesting report by McKinsey (you can sign up free for their online newsletter which only takes a minute) expands on the theme of reverse globalisation which I talked about last week. The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container has tripled since 2000 and labour cost increases have risen...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008
  • The CO2 blame game

    In my previous post, I talked about the collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations and how this didn't auger well for a new global agreement for setting greenhouse gas-emission limits and a worldwide price on carbon. The chemicals industry needs clarity. A global price for carbon would enable...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
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