Iron ore and steel. Strategic, volatile and primed for conflict
... logistics. Russia, while not the top dog, is an important part of that mix. But the large volumes presented by available open source statistics on the BRICS are reminiscent of the Glasnost days of Mikhail Gorbachev and the impending collapse of the USSR command economy. You can't be competitive producing, an award winning volume of, for example, porcelain dinner plates by kilo weight when the rest of the world is measuring the items by units. This is the situation with bulk iron ore and ...
02.03.2015