Global agribusiness giant Cargill is planning to build a new canola processing facility in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, the company announced on 22 April.

Biodiesel trials for two vessels in India have been successful while a biofuel bunkering trial in Singapore delivered a positive result.

Canadian National Railway (CN) has made a bid for Kansas City Southern (KCS) to create the first US-Canada-Mexico rail network following an earlier agreement by Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) to buy KCS, World Grain reported on 21 April.

Import duties on soyabeans, meal and oil have been suspended in Brazil until the end of the year, Reuters reported the country’s agriculture ministry as saying on 19 April.

A drop in 2020 biodiesel imports to the European Union (EU) from Malaysia and Indonesia followed a sharp decline in imports from Argentina the previous year, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported from Eurostat/AMI data.

Demand in India for oleochemicals will remain stable amid soaring COVID-19 infections in the country, according to an Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS) report on 26 April.

Argentine soyabean production and export estimates have been lowered as dry conditions have hit yields, AgriCensus reported on 21 April from a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.

CBOT soyabean oil futures surged to a 12-year high on 20 April against a backdrop of fears over tight supply, AgriCensus reported.

Global agribusiness giant Cargill has invested in Dutch plant-based meat start-up Bflike to offer alternatives to animal-based products, the companies announced on 22 April.

Indonesian state-owned energy corporation Pertamina has partnered with speciality chemical company Clariant on the potential use of oil palm biomass in advanced biofuels.

US energy company Phillips 66 has chosen Australian engineering company Worley to carry out the revamp of its San Francisco refinery to produce renewable fuels.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has asked industry groups for their input on national biofuel policy after its current phase ends in 2022, Reuters reported sources as saying on 15 April.

Canadian oil and natural gas company Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure (Tidewater) has chosen technology from Topsoe for the production of renewable diesel at its proposed new plant, the companies announced on 15 April.