Vingroup and Alstom have signed a contract covering 200 five-car Metropolis trains for Hanoi’s urban railway network. The first 83 will be built in France, while technology transfer will support production and assembly of the remaining 117 in Vietnam.
Ecuador is auditing Polish orchards, packing facilities and storage sites as part of negotiations over market access for apples. Domestic production covers only about 14% of Ecuadorian demand, leaving an import market currently served by suppliers including Chile.
Spain imported 92,751.55 tonnes of olive oil from Tunisia and Morocco between January and July 2026. The sharp increase strengthens the Maghreb’s role in Spanish supply, although the available information does not disclose the split by origin, grade or value.
Prices increased across Brazil’s cattle and meat chain at the end of September. Globo Rural linked the gains to tighter supplies of slaughter-ready cattle during the off-season and stronger exports compared with August.
Moldova produced 282,000 tonnes of vegetables in 2025, up 13%, but domestic output covered only about 85% of demand. Potato self-sufficiency remained lower at 65%, despite a 10% increase in production.
Argentina’s annual chicken consumption reached 47 kilograms per person, narrowly exceeding beef at 46.7 kilograms for the first time. A wide price gap is pushing households toward poultry and pork, while beef exports continue to rise.
Claims that Polish urea was exported to Ukraine far below domestic prices rely on an average calculated for the broader CN 3102 nitrogen-fertilizer category. Shipment composition, traders and re-exports mean that this customs value cannot be treated as the sale price of a specific producer or product.
Midagri says Peru has been declared free of highly pathogenic avian influenza after its sanitary self-declaration was published by the World Organisation for Animal Health. The status underpins talks to open Singapore, Ecuador and Bolivia to Peruvian poultry, while final authorisation for pork and poultry shipments to China remains pending after 2025 inspections. Poultry accounts for 24.3% of the Gross Value of Agricultural Production, at about 1.94 million tonnes of meat a year.
Early cherry production in Ovalle could be 60% to 70% below initial estimates for Chile’s 2026-2027 season. Fruit-fly restrictions are also limiting airfreight access to China, forcing exporters to consider cold treatment and alternative markets.
More than 5 billion bottles and cans were returned during the first year of Poland’s deposit-return system. Retailers report growing demand for larger water packs, home carbonation products and concentrates, while the beverage industry warns that adding single-use glass could require another 2 billion złoty in equipment investment.
Ho Chi Minh City police have dismantled a network accused of using banned Salbutamol to fatten pigs and distributing more than 10,000 tonnes of affected supply since January 2026. Nine people have been charged, while investigators are examining farms, slaughterhouses, traders and alleged quarantine-document fraud.
Wolters, founded in Braunschweig in 1627, will shut its production site after failing to find an investor in insolvency proceedings, with around 90 employees informed of the closure. The shutdown follows the sharpest annual contraction in German beer consumption since reunification in 1990, with sales reported down about 6% to roughly 7.8 billion litres.
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