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| Food & Beverages

Serbia’s ice cream exports reach €102.49 million in 2025

Serbia exported 35,733 tonnes of ice cream worth €102.49 million in 2025, generating a €55.9 million trade surplus. Bulgaria remained the largest foreign market, while shipments to the United Kingdom and Switzerland recorded the strongest growth.

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Marco Bianchi
Lead Logistics & Freight Analyst
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| Food & Beverages

Chicken’s global rise reshapes meat production and trade

Chicken overtook pork in 2022 and has become the world’s leading meat by production and consumption, according to reporting based on FAO data. Global output reached 76.2 billion birds in 2023, while poultry consumption is forecast to grow about 21% by 2034.

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David Okafor
Food & Beverage Analyst
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| Machinery & Automotive

Czech used-car imports rise 9.3% as secondhand EV demand accelerates

The Czech Republic imported 94,048 used passenger cars in the first seven months, up 9.3% year on year. Older affordable vehicles still dominate much of the flow, but imports are also becoming the main source of younger electric and premium cars.

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Henrik Johansson
Senior Machinery & Automotive Analyst
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| Metals & Mining

Voestalpine opens €70 million Jeffersonville plant for commercial vehicle components

Voestalpine has opened an expanded production facility for longitudinal beams in Jeffersonville, United States, with an investment of about €70 million. The plant is scheduled to reach full production by mid-2027, strengthening the Austrian steelmaker’s position in the North American commercial vehicle market.

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Thomas Reid
Senior Metals & Mining Analyst
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| Energy & Fuels

Kazakhstan’s Bogatyr Komir plans 25.7% coal output increase by 2027

Bogatyr Komir plans to produce 56.9 million tonnes of coal annually from 2027 through 2030, up 25.7% from its 2025 output. The expansion at the Bogatyr and Severny mines will increase Kazakhstan’s coal supply while raising the importance of transport coordination.

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Priya Raghavan
Energy Markets Analyst
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| Agriculture: Crops & Grains

Palm oil prices rise in Indonesia and Malaysia as production concerns lift vegetable oils

Indonesian CPO reached Rp 15,800 per kilogram on August 28, while Malaysia’s November contract rose to RM 4,859 per metric tonne. Gains in soybean oil and concerns about future vegetable-oil production supported prices, although Malaysian palm oil remained down 3.41% for the week.

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Ana Lucia Fernandes
Senior Agricultural Commodities Analyst
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| Agriculture: Crops & Grains

Vĩnh Long targets higher-value coconut industry across 122,870 hectares

Vĩnh Long plans to connect its 122,870 hectares of coconut plantations more closely with organic certification, processing and export markets. Despite exports of about $500 million in 2025, fragmented production and continued sales of raw coconuts constrain the industry’s value.

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Ana Lucia Fernandes
Senior Agricultural Commodities Analyst
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