Happy New Year, all plastic friends!Today is the first working day of 2024, let's take a look at the big news with Xiaoye!
Big**!Tsunami!On the afternoon of January 1, local time, 7Level 6**.
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, January 2 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on the 2nd, citing relevant departments in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, that the city's Municipal Wajima Hospital confirmed on the 2nd that seven more people had died on the Noto Peninsula. At present, the death toll caused by this ** has risen to 13. (I have to say that Japan has done a really good job of earthquake resistance).
This is a damaged house photographed on January 1 in Kawai Town, Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. In addition, the Japan Meteorological Agency will trigger a tsunami with a wave height of 5 meters, and quickly issue a "tsunami warning" for the Noto area, which is the first time that the agency has issued a "tsunami warning" since March 11, 2011. **10 minutes after the occurrence, Wajima Port in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a wave height of more than 12 meters of tsunami,Subsequently, tsunamis, ranging in wave height, were observed over a wide area of the Japanese archipelago from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu Island in the south. China News Service Tokyo on January 2, according to Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun", Tokyo Electric Power Company released a message on January 1The incident in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan on the same day caused a cooling water overflow in the fuel pool of the Kashiwazaki Kariba Nuclear Power Plant. 
On January 1, 2024 local time, in Kashiwazaki City, Japan, the scene of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company after experiencing many strong **. Visual China Diagram.
The Kashiwazaki Kariba Nuclear Power Plant is located in Niigata, Japan, and is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company. The nuclear power plant is one of the largest in the worldIts seven reactors** have a capacity of more than 8.2 million kilowatts. According to the report, no cooling water leakage has been found outside the nuclear power plant, and the overflow of cooling water has not caused damage. 
On January 1, 2024 local time, in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, a fire broke out in the big **. Visual China Diagram.
It is planned that part of the ships will return to the Red Sea for less than a weekGlobal shipping giant Maersk announced another 48-hour suspension of sailings.
On December 31, 2023, Maersk confirmed thatThe ship "Maersk Hangzhou" was attacked while passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Singapore to the port of Suez in Egypt,".At present, the safety of the crew of the ship, ensuring the safety of the crew is the company's top priority, and we have taken all necessary safety measures to protect the crew. The crew will have all the support they need to cope with this difficult and serious situation."
The Red Sea crisis continues to escalate!According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, Iran's "Iris Alborz"** has passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red SeaBritish media: Britain and the United States will issue an ultimatum to the Houthis in Yemen, planning to launch naval and air strikes.
Due to the temporary inability to resume the Red Sea route, shipping companies have begun to ask for the diversion of cargo originally planned to the Red Sea. This means that the original freight consignment needs to be adjusted, and the transit time needs to be extended to be transported through the Cape of Good HopeAt the same time, the additional costs are also emerging......The cost is naturally borne by the customer, and the shipping company charges a maximum of 19,220 yuan!
In 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for seven days, container freight rates were sharply**, and chemical raw materials and plastics** were on the rise
In 2023, the Red Sea waterway crisis will break out, the Asia-Europe ** chain will be impacted, and freight costs and freight rates will soar.
It is expected that in 2024**, it will continue to be affected by the situation in the Red Sea
Before the holiday, some investors asked China Chemical that the company's performance briefing in the third quarter would inform that the technical transformation of the dinitrile project would be completed by the end of the year, and whether it could reach mass productionChina Chemical said:The company's adiponitrile project is progressing smoothly, of which the acrylonitrile output has completed the annual plan 1040,000 tons of 76About 73%, the adiponitrile production line has just opened up the process after the technical transformation, and the load will be gradually increased when it is restarted. Previously, the company said on the investor interactive platform on November 14 that up to now, the technical upgrading and transformation of the adiponitrile project continues to advance smoothly, and it is expected that the production capacity will gradually reach the expected production capacity after the resumption of operation at the end of the year. China Chemical Tianchen Qixiang Nylon New Material Project
China Chemical Tianchen Qixiang Nylon New Material Project is located in Jinshan Industrial Park, Qilu Chemical Industry Zone, with a planned investment of 20 billion yuan and an area of about 3,000 acresAfter completion, the annual output of 1 million tons of new nylon materials, 500,000 tons of hexamethylenediamine, 500,000 tons of adiponitrile and 500,000 tons of acrylonitrile will be produced in parallel.
The first phase of the nylon new material project has an investment of 10.4 billion yuan, covering an area of 1,800 acres, with butadiene as the main raw material, producing 200,000 tons of adiponitrile, acrylonitrile, hexamethylenediamine, nylon 66 salt and chips and other products.
At the beginning of 2023, China Chemical Tianchen Qixiang Nylon 66 plant was successfully started up at one time and produced the first batch of high-grade products.