In our first newsletter for the year we would like to share our views and thoughts on latest trends, developments and changes in global gasoline and ethers markets and their impact on regional supply & demand balances and product trade flows. This non-commercial review focuses on the main regulatory aspects and adjustments to production capacity in 2024/2025.
In our first edition of "In Conversation" for 2014, we start with Clarence Woo, Executive Director of ACFA, whom we would like to thank for sharing with us his experiences over the past 11 years in ACFA as well as his thoughts and views for the future.
No matter what report and statistic one looks at, the major Asian cities are still ranked high in the top quartile of the most pollutant cities in the world.
The non-profit Coordinating Research Council (CRC) directs engineering and environmental studies on the interaction between vehicles and petroleum products. CRC members include OEMs Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen. The fuels community is represented by the American Petroleum Institute.
After an extensive review process, members of the Worldwide Fuel Charter committee are poised to publish the fifth edition of the charter, which will change its fuel-quality recommendations for the first time since 2006.
More than seven months after China's new consumption tax policies were supposed to take effect on Jan 1, 2013, little has happened and actions seem muted after much talking earlier on. Implementation seems still some distance away.
Despite serving a diverse array of people and places, Indochina's transportation sector has some shared characteristics. For one thing, the most common passenger vehicle in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar runs on two-wheels, not four.
Size does matter in the case of pollutants. The smallest airborne particulates present some of the biggest challenges to public health, particularly in Asia. As a result these particles are beginning to attract increasing attention and efforts are underway to minimise their impact.
Indonesia's economic boom in bringing a host of challenges to the largest economy in Southeast Asia. Evidence of that economic expansion can be seen in car sales. These are expected to reach almost a million units in 2012, up 11% from 894,000 units in 2011, according to the Association of Indonesia Automotive Industries (GAIKINDO).
The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) started as a project of Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2001 and grew into a standalone non-governmental organization (NGO).
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