Critical minerals reshaping global trade: UNCTAD

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UNCTAD's latest Global Trade Update highlights how the global demand for critical minerals essential for the energy transition and advanced technologies is reshaping trade flows, industrial policies, and supply chains. This transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for the shipping industry worldwide.

The global race to secure critical minerals is reshaping trade flows, industrial policy and supply chains, creating new opportunities and challenges for the shipping industry, according to a new report from UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In its latest Global Trade Update, UNCTAD said demand for minerals essential to the energy transition and advanced technologies …