Analysis of China's dairy industry recovery in 2025-2026: milk prices bottom out, demand rebounds, imports weaken, and policy support drives high-quality development.

Affected by the turmoil in the Middle East, global shipping giants have avoided the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz, and instead bypassed the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, resulting in a substantial increase in voyages. This change has significantly increased the demand for refueling ships along the African coast, and global fuel suppliers are accelerating their investment in Africa to capture the business opportunities brought by new routes. However, the industry also faces multiple challenges, including the threat of piracy, inadequate infrastructure and supply uncertainty.

Analysis of China's oilseed meal market as of March 2026: soybean and rapeseed meal prices decline amid supply and demand shifts, while cottonseed meal remains stable. Key factors and outlook included.

Since the outbreak of the U. S.-Israeli-Iraqi conflict, shipping activities in the Strait of Hormuz, a key channel for global energy transportation, have shrunk sharply. Market data show that the number of merchant shipping in March plunged 95 percent from before the conflict, with the average daily traffic plummeting from about 138 ships. Most of the passing vessels use Iran's approved northern route, and a large number of LNG carriers are diverted to Asia due to supply constraints and price factors. The Strait, which carries about 1/4 of the world's seaborne oil trade, has had a significant impact on global energy supply chains.

CBOT soybean futures fell 5.2%, ending a 6-week rally. The drop was driven by US-China trade concerns after Trump postponed his visit and seasonal pressure from Brazil's harvest.

On March 11, the Central Asia Express (Wuhan) opened a special liquid bag container train for the first time, loaded with high-quality edible sunflower seed oil from Central Asia and arrived at Wuhan Xianglushan Station. This marks the first time that Wuhan has adopted the liquid bag container transportation mode to import edible oil, realized the innovation of transportation mode, and promoted the "Central Asia-Xianglu Mountain" return train to enter the normal operation. Liquid bag technology fills edible oil in environmentally friendly liquid bags, and realizes "door-to-door" transportation through standard containers. It has the advantages of safety, economy, and reduced loss. It helps Central Asian agricultural products enter the Chinese market more efficiently and enrich people's dining tables.

On March 20, the Ministry of Transport held a party group meeting to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech during the two sessions and the spirit of the two sessions, and to study and implement the key tasks of the State Council in 2026. The meeting deployed a number of key tasks, including the high-quality preparation of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" transportation plan, the improvement of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, the expansion of effective investment, the deepening of the reform of the comprehensive transportation system, the promotion of transportation and logistics costs, the improvement of quality and efficiency, and the cultivation of transportation New quality productivity of transportation, etc., aims to accelerate the construction of people's satisfactory transportation and serve the national strategy. The meeting also emphasized the need to promote pragmatic cooperation in the field of transportation between China and Turkey, and serve the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

Analysis of 2026 global peanut market: tight supplies from South America, shifting Chinese import patterns, weather risks, and price volatility outlook for stakeholders.

The article reported signs of supply tightening in Singapore, the world's largest ship fuel filling center. Due to the conflict in the Middle East, fuel prices have fluctuated sharply, and distributors have reduced forward purchases and prioritized long-term customers to manage risk, leading to supply tensions in the market. Although the authorities say the supply is sufficient, the price of very low sulfur fuel oil has soared by 160 percent since the beginning of the year, and the market has failed to meet the standards of fuel, causing equipment problems.

The Greater Bay Area Shipping Joint Service Platform was officially released recently. The platform reconstructs the shipping transaction ecology with digitalization, providing global shipowners and shipping enterprises with one-stop online services for the whole process of shipping assets and port assets. Through online and global transaction settlement, the platform solves the pain points of traditional transactions, integrates the advantages of Hong Kong and Nansha, and creates the shipping trading rules with the characteristics of the Greater Bay Area. At present, the platform has become the largest and leading integrated shipping trading service platform in South China, covering the whole chain of services and a variety of ship types, and has set up branches in Indonesia and Hong Kong to serve the global market.

The world's largest 24000TEU-class LNG dual-fuel power container ship "Dafei Paris Grand Palace" built by Hudong Zhonghua for France's Dafei Group was delivered seven and a half months in advance. With a total length of 399 meters, the ship can carry nearly 24000 standard tanks and 18000 cubic meters of LNG fuel tanks. It has a clean power endurance of nearly 20000 nautical miles and greatly reduces pollutant emissions compared with traditional fuel tankers. The ship will be put into operation on the Mediterranean route, marking new achievements in the cooperation between China and France in the field of green shipping and high-end manufacturing.

Global oil prices soar above $103 as Middle East tensions and Strait of Hormuz supply fears overturn bearish forecasts, impacting inflation and economic outlook.

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From January to February this year, Fujian's ship exports reached 4.11 billion billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1 times, a record high for the same period. Among them, state-owned enterprises are the main export, bulk carriers are the main export category, and the export of liquid cargo ships shows explosive growth. In terms of export markets, the European Union is the main market, and emerging markets such as Latin America and Africa have performed well and become new growth points.

On March 11, Tan Wei, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Wuhan Optics Valley Central City Construction Service Center, and his delegation visited the IBI Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Headquarters, where they were warmly received by Wang Yu, CEO of Xineng Duoduo, and others. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as the intelligent computing industry chain, digital supply chain, and industrial digitalization. The visiting delegation first toured the IBI Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Exhibition Hall, gaining detailed insights into the operational models of various Duoduo platforms under IBI, cross-border operational strategies of industrial belts, and the technical applications and practical achievements of IBI Cloud. Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone (referred to as "Optics Valley") is one of China's first national high-tech zones and is also in Hubei.