hina Petroleum & Chemical Corp, China's largest oil refiner, is expected to import 10 million metric tons of crude oil from the United States this year, said the company, also known as Sinopec.

CHANGSHA - Five people died after a ship capsized in a river in Central China's Hunan province, local authorities said Monday.

BRITISH waste exporters in are crisis mode because of China's ban on imports of recyclables that are backing up and sending shippers scrambling to find new ways to dispose of 80,000 TEU a year.

NANJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Four people went missing after a fishing boat capsized in east China's Yellow Sea, local authorities said Sunday.

Zhanjiang will speed up the construction of the cargo-passenger ro-ro terminal at Nanshan work zone of Xuwen Port to shorten the travel time across the Qiongzhou Straits, pledged Mayor Jiang Jianjun.

The growth rate of Zhuhai Port container-throughput has surpassed that of 23 other major coastal ports in China since 2016. And in 2017, the port handled 2.27 million TEUs -- a 37.3 percent year-on-year increase.

China’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) surged in January as the country continued its switch from coal to natural gas as fuel for heating and to meet the expected demand spike due to a cold snap this month.

China will launch its first crude oil futures contract at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange on March 26, China Securities Regulatory Commission announced.

The Nanshan Maritime Safety Bureau said it helped 15 foreign sailors receive salary owed to them by their employer.

A Chinese heavy-lift ship carrying four big container cranes is sailing toward Tacoma, a port city in Washington state, local authorities said Thursday.

Two people are missing after a freighter and a passenger ship collided off the coast of south China's Guangdong Province early Thursday, according to authorities.

A logistics researcher in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province has called for a timeout in building massive ports for crude oil imports, as the nation's energy consumption transformation could make billions of yuan worth of investments o

Construction of a test field for unmanned cargo ships－the first of its kind in Asia－has begun in Zhuhai, a coastal city in Guangdong province.

Cruise ports along the Chinese coast have received over 18 million tourists since the country opened its domestic port market to passenger liners in 2006, authorities said.

Ferry services resumed Thursday morning on the Qiongzhou Strait, a major gateway to China's southernmost island province of Hainan. More than 8,000 cars were still waiting in or outside the three ports of Haikou, capital of Hainan, as of