The firm, which concentrates on trading oil, metals, ores and bulk commodities, may in the future consider floating Puma Energy, its rapidly expanding fuel station business.

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Both metals and plastics are traded in bulk form, before they are turned into finished products.

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Already, most of the shipments through Murmansk's Barents Sea port to the north or Kandalaksha's White Sea port to the south is made up of metals and minerals, and the bulk is set to grow.

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And Nucryst might apply its patented manufacturing process, which breaks the bulk silver down and then builds it back up atom by atom into silver nanocrystals, to other noble metals like gold and platinum for formulations to treat diseases as diverse as arthritis and cancer.

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