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Petroleum pricing
2026 Mar 18
Brent crude oil rising price continued following Fujairah port damage in Gulf of Oman, possibly affecting further cut in Emirates production already 50% since ME crisis started; Goldman Sachs advises prices to rise higher on petroleum products such as jet fuel.
Markets
Builder brief: Aero Engine
2026 Mar 18
Aero Engine, 1980-Present, China, www.aecc.cn, parent AVIC, builder engines: turbofans CJ-500 CJ-1000 CJ-2000 thrust SL 80-350 kN, applications: C909 C919 C929.
Frontiers
First-class and business-class
2026 Mar 18
Larger business-class cabins encompassing smaller first-class cabins, migrating seat class concept from luxury to premium; business class products adjusting customer expectations from spacious elaborate attentive to private connected productive; hybrid configurations used to differentiate business class products with options of lie-flat seats and/or private suites.
Frontiers
B777-9 certification progress
2026 Mar 18
US FAA cleared Boeing to continue advancing B777-9 into 4th of five phases of Type Inspection Authorization certification testing; Boeing plans to begin Phase 4A ‘very shortly’.
Markets
Glossary highlight: Jet fuel
2026 Mar 18
Commercial jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel for gas turbine engines, commonly known as Jet A and Jet A-1, produced to standarized international spec designed as performance spec not chemical compound due to variety of hydrocarbons in petroleum sources, mostly kerosene based, with high flash and low freezing points, often with additives to reduce static electricity, prevent icing, enhance thermal stability.
Markets
MidEast flights disruption
2026 Mar 18
Cirium reports 31k of 63k or 49% of scheduled flight departures cancelled since start of ME crisis, with most emphasis on airlines based in Gulf and Levant, cancelled flights: El Al 898 87%, Etihad 2,288 78%, Gulf 1,947 98%, Kuwait 1,075 97%, Qatar 4,765 93%, Saudia 1,112 14%.
Markets
GCC by-pass ports
2026 Mar 17
Gateway ports to Gulf by-passing Hormus with 15.4m TEU container latent capacity: Emirates port Khorfakkan 4.0m and Oman port Sohar 1.4m, on Gulf of Oman; Saudi port Jeddah 5.5m and Saudi port King Abdullah 4.5, on Red Sea; presently, Gulf of Oman ports shorter drayage at higher risk and Red Sea ports longer drayage at lower risk.
Markets
Trade imbalance
2026 Mar 17
Global container trade imbalance worsened, as empty containers count rose to 28% or measured in TUE miles 42% by 2026 Jan, meaning increased empty back-haul cargo raising burden on head-haul cargo.
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