The old port did a huge international business in its day, signified with the vast, now empty grain terminals
Exports from the Arab Gulf normally exceed 1.5 million tonnes of urea per month, meaning even short-term disruptions can quickly tighten global supply
Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health. The one just past was really a wake, but it played out more like the immortal Dead Parrot
This is a financial crash of the sort that usually accompanies an exciting new technology, not an existential crisis, but it is coming.