This year’s later Chinese New Year has been mooted as the reason for a boost in throughput at Hong Kong Port, where 1.81m teu were handled – an increase of 9% over the 1.66m teu in January 2017.

The SuperStar Gemini from Hong Kong's cruise company Star Cruises is projected to run 53 trips based on Xiamen port from April to October, according to Xiamen International Cruise Home Port Co.

China Merchants and China Cosco Shipping, both with listings in Hong Kong, are alleged to be divesting their interests in the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung.

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in East China's Zhejiang province, the world's largest port in terms of cargo throughput, was off to a good start during the Chinese New Year.

The local government in Tangshan announced on Friday that it is planning to extend steel production restrictions well beyond the current winter heating season. We understand that the plan is yet to be approved by the authorities, however, if

Freight rates for shipping coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao port to the ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou in the east and south China moved upwards after the Lunar New Year holidays, Qinhuangdao Port operator Tuesday said.

01 / Fernando A. Solorzano, general director of merchant marine, Panama Maritime Authority PANAMA has maintained its dominance as the world’s biggest registry and enjoys a degree of supremacy that is unparalleled in other shipping secto

BIMCO relaunches ship benchmarking system Shipping KPI after two years of redesign. The system helps shipowners and managers make strategic decisions about their fleet.

Beginning 1 January 2019, all vessels entering Taiwanese ports will be required to use fuel with a sulphur content of less than 0.5%.

The International Maritime Organization intends to ban ships that do not have equipment to strip sulphur from carrying fuel that has a sulphur content above new limits in 2020, an IMO official said on Thursday.

BEIJING - The China Coast Guard participated in 272 maritime rescue operations in 2017, saving 62 ships and 425 people.

IN the Year of the Dog, spot rates for shipping containers from Asia to northern Europe in the week ending Friday ticked up 1.2 per cent to US$916 per TEU, according to the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI).

Out of 67 global shipping lines, 87 percent of the global containership fleet capacity is controlled by 10 ocean liners, according to the data from the UK's MDS Transmodal.

China's first shale gas liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant (phase I) was built recently in Fuling, a city of Chongqing municipal city in southwestern China.

China Merchants Port Holdings Co (CMPort) said it has completed the acquisition of Paranagua Container Terminal (TCP) in Brazil, the country's second-largest container terminal, a statement posted on the company's website said on Monday.