The great bulk of commodity trading is in contracts for future delivery.
His coffee sales overseas, as with the bulk of global commodities, are priced in weaker dollars.
The skewing of that growth to exports of bulk commodities, where employment is small, means the domestic side of the economy is still not growing fast enough to attain full employment.
The cargoes being hijacked are not those of the easily-tracked container-ships, but of bulk commodities, and this business is highly fragmented, with thousands of small shipping firms moving cargoes to hundreds of small ports.
Algae are currently used for production of niche products and are becoming increasingly interesting for the production of bulk commodities, such as biodiesel.
Moreover, by reducing freight costs, railways fostered the production of bulk commodities like beef and coffee.
BHP's ongoing presence in Beijing is helpful in its marketing and sale of bulk commodities into the region.
Pudong, on the east bank of the Huangpu and in the Huangpu district, is used for the storage of bulk commodities and for transportation maintenance and repair facilities.
Rivers and lakes have long played a major role in the transport of bulk commodities like coal in Germany, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States.
The scion of a merchant family, Mr Dangote began his career in the 1970s as an importer of bulk commodities, such as rice and sugar, but soon moved into manufacturing.
At the same time, the payload weight of bulk commodities that can be conveyed in a single car without undue track wear has been significantly increased by advances in truck design and, in North America, by growing use of aluminum instead of steel for bodywork, to reduce the car's own tare weight.
