卡塔尔外交部发言人：霍尔木兹海峡的直接沟通渠道在过去几天内已被用于遏制冲突。

The Baltic Dry Index rose 11 points (0.4%) to 2,501 on Tuesday, rebounding from a two-month low hit on Monday. The Capesize index gained 10 points (0.3%) to 3,548, lifting Capesize daily earnings by $90 to $28,678. Panamax climbed 30 points (1.4%) to 2,154, raising Panamax daily earnings by $266 to $19,383. Supramax eased 1 point (0.06%) to 1,667 and Handysize fell 1 point to 946.

XPeng robotics head Mi Liangchuan has recently left the company. CEO He Xiaopeng is personally assuming leadership of the XPeng Robotics Center and its product division. Mi spent about 15 years at NVIDIA with extensive autonomous-driving experience; he joined XPeng in 2021 as senior director of autonomous driving, was promoted to head of enterprise processes in April 2023 and to head of robotics in September 2023. External observers had identified Mi, Chen Jie, Ge Yixiao and Liu Xianming as the four core leaders of XPeng’s robotics team.