US renewable fuel company Montana Renewables – an unrestricted subsidiary of Calumet – has completed the MaxSAF expansion at its Great Falls facility, Biomass Magazine wrote.

In an expansion of the US-China trade deal, Beijing has agreed to purchase an additional US$17bn of US agricultural products, World Grain reported, citing a fact sheet published by the White House.

The world food price gauge – the FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) – climbed for the third consecutive month in April mainly due to rising vegetable oil prices, the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced.

Cocoa futures fell sharply in mid-May as the Ivory Coast raised its 2025/26 crop forecast and rainfall in West Africa improved the outlook there, Cocoa Intel wrote.

The Malaysian government has announced that 19 licensed plants were set to produce a palm oil-based biodiesel blends of 15% (B15) from 1 June, The Star reported.

European animal fat prices rebounded in early March and continued to increase in April, supported by increased demand and competitiveness against vegetable oils, which jumped due to the war in the Middle East and crude oil rally, commodity price reporting agency Fastmarkets wrote.

Global supply chain and logistics company DP World and its partners reduced diesel use at Canada’s Port of Prince Rupert by 24% last year, replacing it with more than 2M litres of renewable diesel.

German lawmakers have agreed to ease the cap on crop-based biofuels, lifting it from 4.4% to 5.8% in the medium term, Biofuels International wrote, citing a report by Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Crops (UFOP).

Austrian plant manufacturer BDI-BioEnergy International (BDI) and Ghent Renewables have commissioned a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) advanced feedstock pre-treatment plant at North Sea Port in Ghent, Belgium.

Leading container shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has launched a new Europe-to-Gulf multi-modal route via Saudi Arabia to bypass the blocked Strait of Hormuz, Logistics Middle East reported.

The Queensland government is investing US$17.8M in developing renewable diesel production at leading Australian fuel and energy company Ampol’s Lytton refinery in Queensland.

Indonesia’s move to channel ​palm oil exports through a central agency could disrupt supplies of the world’s most traded edible ‌oil, according to a Reuters report.

Global agribusiness giant Cargill is investing US$150M in upgrading its sunflower processing site in Saint-Nazaire, France.