[Ferro-Alloys.com]KOLKATA: The Ministry of Railways has finally yielded to industry's demand and discontinued the dual freight policy for transportation of iron ore and iron ore pellets. This policy came into effect from Tuesday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Largo Resources Ltd. ("Largo" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received approval for trading on the OTCQB® Venture Market ("OTCQB"). The Company commenced trading under the symbol (LGORF) at market open today.

By then, energy-intensive industries like aluminium, ferrosilicon and manganese alloy smelters will shift the import of raw materials and the export of finished products from Bintulu Port to Samalaju Port, which is designed to serve the Samalaju industries.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] According to Glencore announced that the company’s ferrochrome output of 400,000 tons, an increase of 4% year on year. Ferromanganese output was 45,000 tons, an increase of 29% year on year. Those for Silicon-manganese production of 19...

[www.ferro-alloys.com] It is reported that USA’s Department of Commerce (DOC) proposed a preliminary duties against welded stainless pressure pipes imported from India, saying that the goods were being dumped in the US market at below market prices.

When production officially began at the world’s biggest concentrated solar power plant at Ouarzazate in southern Morocco in February, the country was widely celebrated for its achievement. Called Noor 1 after the Arabic word for light, the concentrated solar ...

Seeing its prospects falter in the United States, solar thermal project developer SolarReserve is teaming up with the world’s largest coal provider to find better prospects for the technology in China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The slump in iron ore traffic weighed on cargo throughput of eastern ports. In case of Paradip Port, iron ore cargo nosedived from 3.4 mt to 0.2 mt year-on-year. Iron ore traffic at Visakhapatnam fell from 8.36 mt to 5.97 mt.