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We expect to ship about 3.5 million tonnes in the current (fiscal) year. – Vedanta CEO Tom Albanese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Stocks at the main ports may drop to as low as 250,000 tonnes, or at least to 300,000 tonnes by mid-year. – Norinobu Ozawa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Despite the timid pick-up of the global economy, Mali has this year (2015) produced 50 tonnes of gold of which 46 tonnes are industrial production and four tonnes are artisanal. – President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Knowledge shared is better than tonnes of documents on our shelves". – Pius Masai Mwachi	added by anonymous 8 years ago
Port inventories have surged by as much as 10 million tonnes in recent months, while steel mills are still cutting their plant inventories, so more could be sold to market and prices will be under further pressure. – The Beijing trader	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is still significant spare capacity in China's SPR, which can take in another 12 million tonnes of crude (88 million barrels). – Yaw Yan Chong	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They offered us tonnes of silt for free, provided we transported it ourselves. I brought 30 tractors of silt, which is a very good way to increase moisture to my field. Normally I get 15-30 quintals of cotton. But this year, I am expecting at least double that. – Farmer Gaju Rawat	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Over this period, the release of latent capacity across the portfolio will also help annual group copper production grow to approximately 1.7 million tonnes at very low cost. – Daniel Malchuk	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm quite optimistic because of the levy the Indonesian government put into crude palm oil, they would be able to implement it pretty fast and stocks would start to come down in February or March next year, malaysia and Indonesia combined, we have nearly 5 million tonnes of stocks of CPO now in the market. Any depletion will impact prices positively. – Mohd Emir	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In general we focus on the total amount laid out in the strategy (of energy sector development): around 525 million tonnes (10.5 billion cubic metres per day). – Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Sisal used to be the white gold of Tanzania, in the 60's and 70's our country produced over 200,000 tonnes of sisal, huge employment was provided, then of course synthetics came in, and the prices of Sisal started falling tremendously, so in the late 90's I bought a lot of farms under receivership. And I said: 'look, I mean the price cannot go further down,' so I took a long-term view. – Mohammed Dewji	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're looking at ... additional (annual consumption of) 10 to 15 million tonnes for the next 10 to 20 years. – Arnulfo Robles	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I confirm that Russia has sent Syria 100,000 tonnes of wheat. – Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have demand for 50,000 tonnes of jet fuel a month and we can ship jet fuel from Asia to North America, Los Angeles, to form a supply chain. – Meng Fanqiu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They are presently in negotiations with people in South Africa, we imported around 80-90 million tonnes of coking coal last (fiscal) year and if that is the amount that can come through a mine owned by Coal India, it would consider it. – Coal Secretary Anil Swarup	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Right now we're producing about 230,000 per year and this should double that output to produce about 500,000 tonnes per year. – Pablo Alcazar	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Years ago, Iran was importing 10-12 million tonnes. We will never see those figures again, I can say with certainty, we already have a surplus here. – Bahador Ahramian	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They are going to remove effectively about 300,000 tonnes for next year, i know they say 400,000 tonnes, but that's for an 18-month period. So that brings the market pretty much into balance for next year. – Grant Sporre	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's much cheaper because of the large quantities, a convoy of barges can shift 7,200 tonnes in one trip. To move 7,200 tonnes by road requires 240 tractor trailers. – Carlos Nunez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the coming five years, we have a plan to raise our coffee produce to 25,000 tonnes, one hundred percent of our coffee could be exported once we attained the quality we need. – Jemal Ahmed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you calculate (oilseeds) ... altogether this year, we are expecting to import about 1.5 to 1.6 million tonnes, last year was a little less - about 1.2 million tonnes and our crop was better than this year. – Anis Majeed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Pakistan's production is around 6.5 million tonnes annually - out of which 3.5 million tonnes we export, prices have come down as the international market has come down. – Anis Majeed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
With this LDSD technology we hope to land about five metric tonnes, that will enable more capable robotic missions. – Steve Jurczyk	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In a country like Ukraine which typically produces 75 to 80 million tonnes of coal a year, it's insane to think we're going to turn into an importer, but there are several factors at work here. – John Woodham	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

We expect to ship about 3.5 million tonnes in the current (fiscal) year.

– Vedanta CEO Tom Albanese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Stocks at the main ports may drop to as low as 250,000 tonnes, or at least to 300,000 tonnes by mid-year.

– Norinobu Ozawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Despite the timid pick-up of the global economy, Mali has this year (2015) produced 50 tonnes of gold of which 46 tonnes are industrial production and four tonnes are artisanal.

– President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Knowledge shared is better than tonnes of documents on our shelves".

– Pius Masai Mwachi

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Port inventories have surged by as much as 10 million tonnes in recent months, while steel mills are still cutting their plant inventories, so more could be sold to market and prices will be under further pressure.

– The Beijing trader

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is still significant spare capacity in China's SPR, which can take in another 12 million tonnes of crude (88 million barrels).

– Yaw Yan Chong

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They offered us tonnes of silt for free, provided we transported it ourselves. I brought 30 tractors of silt, which is a very good way to increase moisture to my field. Normally I get 15-30 quintals of cotton. But this year, I am expecting at least double that.

– Farmer Gaju Rawat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Over this period, the release of latent capacity across the portfolio will also help annual group copper production grow to approximately 1.7 million tonnes at very low cost.

– Daniel Malchuk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm quite optimistic because of the levy the Indonesian government put into crude palm oil, they would be able to implement it pretty fast and stocks would start to come down in February or March next year, malaysia and Indonesia combined, we have nearly 5 million tonnes of stocks of CPO now in the market. Any depletion will impact prices positively.

– Mohd Emir

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In general we focus on the total amount laid out in the strategy (of energy sector development): around 525 million tonnes (10.5 billion cubic metres per day).

– Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Sisal used to be the white gold of Tanzania, in the 60's and 70's our country produced over 200,000 tonnes of sisal, huge employment was provided, then of course synthetics came in, and the prices of Sisal started falling tremendously, so in the late 90's I bought a lot of farms under receivership. And I said: 'look, I mean the price cannot go further down,' so I took a long-term view.

– Mohammed Dewji

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We're looking at ... additional (annual consumption of) 10 to 15 million tonnes for the next 10 to 20 years.

– Arnulfo Robles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I confirm that Russia has sent Syria 100,000 tonnes of wheat.

– Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have demand for 50,000 tonnes of jet fuel a month and we can ship jet fuel from Asia to North America, Los Angeles, to form a supply chain.

– Meng Fanqiu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are presently in negotiations with people in South Africa, we imported around 80-90 million tonnes of coking coal last (fiscal) year and if that is the amount that can come through a mine owned by Coal India, it would consider it.

– Coal Secretary Anil Swarup

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Right now we're producing about 230,000 per year and this should double that output to produce about 500,000 tonnes per year.

– Pablo Alcazar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Years ago, Iran was importing 10-12 million tonnes. We will never see those figures again, I can say with certainty, we already have a surplus here.

– Bahador Ahramian

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are going to remove effectively about 300,000 tonnes for next year, i know they say 400,000 tonnes, but that's for an 18-month period. So that brings the market pretty much into balance for next year.

– Grant Sporre

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's much cheaper because of the large quantities, a convoy of barges can shift 7,200 tonnes in one trip. To move 7,200 tonnes by road requires 240 tractor trailers.

– Carlos Nunez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the coming five years, we have a plan to raise our coffee produce to 25,000 tonnes, one hundred percent of our coffee could be exported once we attained the quality we need.

– Jemal Ahmed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you calculate (oilseeds) ... altogether this year, we are expecting to import about 1.5 to 1.6 million tonnes, last year was a little less - about 1.2 million tonnes and our crop was better than this year.

– Anis Majeed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Pakistan's production is around 6.5 million tonnes annually - out of which 3.5 million tonnes we export, prices have come down as the international market has come down.

– Anis Majeed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With this LDSD technology we hope to land about five metric tonnes, that will enable more capable robotic missions.

– Steve Jurczyk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In a country like Ukraine which typically produces 75 to 80 million tonnes of coal a year, it's insane to think we're going to turn into an importer, but there are several factors at work here.

– John Woodham

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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