Peru’s Matarani port just secured the kind of upgrade that can reshape minerals logistics along the Pacific. The terminal, Latin America’s leading copper export hub and now half-owned by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, won government authorization for a $700 million expansion bundled with a 30-year extension of its concession.

The decree lets operator Tisur move straight into build-out without a fresh tender, a structure that aligns long-horizon capital with the mine-development cycle now unfolding in the world’s No. 3 copper producer. The immediate aim is blunt and commercial: add capacity fast enough to keep a marquee Chinese customer, MMG’s Las Bambas, on the roster while positioning for new flows from projects led by Teck and Southern Copper later this decade.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, is exploring liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the United States and other regions to drive global growth, according to Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser. The company aims to leverage its gas output domestically for blue hydrogen…

Japan’s most-watched macro post has quietly become a national-security job. The vice finance minister for international affairs, once famous for jawboning the yen, now spends most days on supply chains, export controls, and alliance economics.

Atsushi Mimura says it out loud: more than half of his remit is “economic security.” That shift captures how Tokyo has retooled the state’s economic machinery for a world defined less by basis points and more by chokepoints. With China, Russia, and North Korea at arm’s length, Japan reads geography as both hazard and leverage: its exposure makes it indispensable to other advanced democracies that want reliable partners in semiconductors, defense inputs, and energy technologies.