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CRITICAL MINERALS AT SEA – LFP, NMC, and LTO each o? er useful maritime pathways, but

Top 25 Leading Companies in the Battery Metals Market each carries di? erent exposure to critical materials production 1. Albemarle Corporation SQM and processing concentration and commodity markets volatility.

(Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile)

For owners, shipyards, and investors, the conclusion is 2. Livent Corporation (Allkem now part of Arcadium Lithium) 3. Arcadium Lithium Ganfeng Lithium Co., Ltd. straightforward – don’t focus purely on the lowest price per 4. Tianqi Lithium Corporation kWh but on supply-chain resilience. Assessing supplier bank- 5. Pilbara Minerals Limited ability, replacement strategy, and contract structure should 6. Sigma Lithium Corporation underlie project due diligence. The strongest investment cases 7. Mineral Resources Limited 8. Lithium Americas Corp. will combine operational logic, secure procurement, diversi- 9. Piedmont Lithium Inc. ? ed suppliers, and technology ? exibility.

10. AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group 11. Glencore plc

Sources 12. Vale S.A. 1. Maritime Battery Forum 13. BHP Group 2. Corvus Energy 14. Rio Tinto Group 3. U.S. Geological Survey 15. First Quantum Minerals Ltd. 4. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence 16. Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) 5. International Energy Agency 17. China Molybdenum Co., Ltd. (CMOC Group) 6. Market Growth Reports 18. Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. 7. Jadhavar Business Intelligence 19. Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) 8. AidData 20. Western Areas Ltd. (now part of IGO Ltd.) 9. Reuters 21. IGO Limited 10. BloombergNEF 22. Talga Group Ltd. 11. Argonne National Laboratory 23. Umicore S.A 12. S&P Global Source: Spherical Insights

You can’t optimize what you don’t measure.

Everyone talks about reducing fuel consumption, lowering emissions and improving engine performance.

The ? rst step isn’t changing the fuel.

It isn’t changing the operation.

It’s understanding the true condition of your engine.

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