WHEN Prologis built Japan’s first logistics centre in 2002 — offering inventory management, storage and distribution services — potential clients and lenders told the company to invest in malls or apartments instead.

A SUBSIDIARY of one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world has swooped on an Irish crop protection company as part of its expansion in horticulture and arable crop markets.

Oil from the worst spill in US history could soon end up at petrol stations, construction sites and even grocery stores when BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to raise money for wildlife protection.

Australia LNG said the 25-year contract won by its North West Shelf (NWS) Venture from China National Offshore Oil Corp to supply 3 million tonnes a year of LNG to a terminal being built in Guangdong could be the first step in a wider energy alliance between the two countries.