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The Biggest Tanker Construction Boom in Half a Century

319 New Oil Supertankers and 364 LNG Carriers: The $150 Billion Shipbuilding Race Reshaping Global Energy Trade

By EuroAsia.News · 29 October 2026 · 12:53 · 4 min read

Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal - Cheaper Fuel Before US Midterms, but at What Cost to Europe and Ukraine?

Washington’s sudden agreement with Moscow exposes a growing conflict between American domestic economic priorities, European energy security and Ukraine’s struggle to maintain international support.

By EuroAsia.News · 10 October 2026 · 09:34 · 3 min read

• US
• Russia
• EU
• Ukraine
• Gasoil

Iran Looks North - A New Economic Space With Central Asia

For centuries, Central Asia's trade routes ran south toward Persia, east toward China and west toward Europe.

By EuroAsia.News · 6 October 2026 · 11:49 · 3 min read

• Iran
• EuroAsia
• Oil

India Refuses to Choose - Russian Oil or the American Market?

For decades, India's foreign policy has been built around a simple principle: strategic autonomy.

By EuroAsia.News · 6 October 2026 · 11:10 · 3 min read

• India
• USA
• Oil
• Russia

Hormuz Is No Longer Enough - Iran Looks North as a New Eurasian Trade Map Emerges

For decades, Iran’s economic geography pointed south. Its oil terminals, largest commercial ports and access to Asian markets depended overwhelmingly on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

By EuroAsia.News · 27 September 2026 · 21:55 · 3 min read

• Iran
• Hormuz

From Oil and Transit to Robots - China Is Building a Technology Base in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s economic relationship with China is moving into a new phase. The old model was relatively straightforward: Kazakhstan supplied oil, metals and uranium while China supplied manufactured goods and financed infrastructure.

By EuroAsia.News · 26 September 2026 · 18:44 · 2 min read

• China
• Kazakhstan
• Technology
• Robots
• AI

Poland’s $230 Million Venezuelan Oil Deal - Crypto, Empty Tankers and a Corporate Scandal

A plan to secure Venezuelan crude and diversify Poland away from Russian oil turned into a remarkable trading failure for energy group Orlen.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 September 2026 · 12:14 · 2 min read

• Venezuela
• Poland
• Dubai
• Oil
• Crypto

Germany’s Industrial Model Was Built on Cheap Energy — Can It Survive Without Russian Gas?

For decades, Germany’s industrial strength rested on a powerful combination: engineering excellence, skilled labour, export markets and reliable energy at internationally competitive prices. Soviet and Russian oil and pipeline gas became a major part of that model.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 10:13 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Russia
• Gas
• Economy

China Replacing OPEC? How Beijing Became the Swing Power in the Global Oil Market

For half a century, discussions about who controls the oil market usually began with OPEC. Saudi Arabia’s spare production capacity, cartel quotas and, later, the wider OPEC+ alliance with Russia could move prices with a single announcement. But the centre of gravity may now be shifting from the countries producing the marginal barrel to the country buying it.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 13:48 · 2 min read

• Energy
• Oil
• China
• Economy

Plant Maize, Harvest Nothing - Central Europe Faces an Agricultural Turning Point

For generations, maize was one of the safest assumptions in the agricultural economy of the Carpathian Basin. Hungary and Romania possessed fertile soils, long summers, large areas of arable land and proximity to the Danube and Black Sea export routes. A farmer planting maize could reasonably expect not only a harvest, but a marketable surplus. That assumption is beginning to break down.

By EuroAsia.News · 4 September 2026 · 18:38 · 4 min read

• Agriculture
• Harvest
• Maize
• Climate Change
• Europe

Europe’s Fields Are Burning: Extreme Heat Reshapes Agriculture

Europe’s summer of 2026 is becoming an agricultural and industrial emergency. Repeated heatwaves, prolonged drought and rapidly evaporating soil moisture are damaging crops from Spain and France to Austria and Hungary.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 10:10 · 2 min read

• drought
• heatwave
• harvest
• energy