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Saturday, 19 April 2025

China cancels all new Boeing orders!

 Something not yet reported in the western-Media?

In the war with tariffs with the U.S.A. the cancellation of Boeing aircraft will be a big blow to Trump and with China and Russia returning to build their own type, spare parts for existing aircraft may be also produced in both countries!

Meanwhile Beijing has the option of now buying the European Airbuses to replace what is being refused and this will change the face of aviation in the far-east for some time to come, if other nations also cancel U.S. military contracts and adapt what they have to new types?

Copyright will be an international issue, but since the new U.S. administration is breaking all the rules anyway, it has opened a door for everyone to follow!

Saturday, 5 April 2025

'Lets do the Locomotion?

 U.S. tariffs will mean for Trains!

It seems a good idea to the U.S. to bring home jobs for heavy industries, but will it really work in 2025 or be the cause of more problems and broken promises as last time around to the Ohio dust belt?

The building of locomotives is not what it was and now with many nations going electric, there is no demand for Diesel and the dirt that they produce, meanwhile Africa is looking to China for conventional engines, because they are cheaper!

In the U.K. we face loosing our Scunthorpe Chinese owned steel mills and many rail projects may go under or come to nothing?

When these import taxes hit, we may need to start to look to Europe or the far-east for a Class 66 replacement, since many were built in Canada