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Doha is expanding from roughly 77 million tons a year of LNG export capacity to more than 110 million tons before the end of the decade, with potential plans to grow to 142 million tons.
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It now runs 200 flights monthly between China and Europe, hauling over 8,000 tons of mostly e-commerce packages bound for Europe, with Temu as one of its biggest customers.
The villages present a paradox: they enable reuse of some of the 1.8 million tons of plastic waste Vietnam produces each year, and allow employees to earn much-needed wages.
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But even though Vietnam only recycles about a third of its own plastic waste, it also imports thousands of tons annually from Europe, the United States and Asia.
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The press can deliver as much as 200 tons of force to the sheet steel.
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