Sentences with phrase «shorter trade routes»

This is a subject of intense media speculation, and is of special interest to oil and gas companies eager to explore the Arctic Ocean for natural resources, as well as for shipping companies hoping to take advantage of new and shorter trade routes.

You'll have to be careful with the anti-action on climate change crowd on this - I wouldn't at all be surprised if they spin this information and use it to promote the benefits of shorter trade routes through the Arctic circle.

For instance, shorter trade routes through the Arctic could be a boon to export - driven nations like China (discussed further below).

A century ago, Panama beat out Nicaragua to snag one of the biggest engineering projects of the age: a U.S. - backed canal that would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, creating a shorter trade route between East and West.

Not exact matches

A Short History of Afghanistan Afghanistan lies on the historically important trading routes between the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.

In both instances, these services or products may include: company financial data and economic data (e.g., unemployment, inflation rates and GDP figures), stock quotes, last sale prices and trading volumes, research reports analyzing the performance of a particular company or stock, narrowly distributed trade magazines or technical journals covering specific industries, products, or issuers, seminars or conferences registration fees which provide substantive content relating to eligible research, quantitative analytical software and software that provides analyses of securities portfolios, trading strategies and pre / post trade analytics, discussions with research analysts or meetings with corporate executives which provide a means of obtaining oral advice on securities, markets or particular issuers, short - term custody related to effecting particular transactions and clearance and settlement of those trades, lines between the broker - dealer and order management systems operated by a third party vendor, dedicated lines between the broker - dealer and the investment adviser's order management system, dedicated lines providing direct dial - up service between the investment adviser and the trading desk at the broker - dealer, message services used to transmit orders to broker - dealers for execution, electronic communication of allocation instructions between institutions and broker - dealers, comparison services required by the SEC or another regulator (e.g., use of electronic confirmation and affirmation of institutional trades), exchange of messages among broker - dealers, custodians, and institutions related to a trade, post-trade matching of trade information, routing settlement instructions to custodian banks and broker - dealers» clearing agents, software that provides algorithmic trading strategies, and trading software operated by a broker - dealer to route orders to market centers or direct market access systems.

Falling commodity prices are discouraging exploration for Arctic oil and gas, while new trade routes across the top of the world are falling short of expectations.

However, this gain will be offset when the volume of trade increases because of the shorter sea route, making climate change slightly worse.

The report says that roughly 8 % of world trade goes through the Suez Canal, and that two - thirds of this volume will go via the shorter Arctic route.

LONDON, 4 August, 2015 — The disappearing Arctic ice cap will boost trade between north - west Europe and countries such as China, Japan and South Korea by making the sea routes far shorter, according to economic analysts.