1.Chinese and South Korean shipping companies will compete for Russian icebreaking LNG ship orders worth up to $3bn. 2.An offshore wind power industrial park project broke ground at Haiyang Nuclear Power Equipment Manufacturing Park in Haiy

Russian energy giant Novatek has requested Putin to consider giving 10 of a series of 15 ice-breaking LNG ships to overseas shipbuilders for construction because of concerns about their own building capacity. The orders, worth up to $3bn, a

The container throughput between Taicang port and Shanghais Yangshan port is expected to exceed 50,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), local media reported on Dec 22. Statistics from the administrative committee of Taicang port shows that,

Shipping industry confidence is on something of a high as we enter 2020, according to shipping advisor and accountant BDO. Richard Greiner, partner, Shipping Transport at BDO, says, It is not far short of six years since confidence in the i

Chinas icebreaker Xuelong 2 conducted investigations in the Cosmonaut Sea of the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, the same day when Chinas other icebreaker Xuelong also sailed for the Amundson Sea for research, meaning that for the first time eve

Construction on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cryogenic equipment industrial center started on Dec 18 in Zhangjiagang, East Chinas Jiangsu province. The project received $239 million in investment from Zhangjiagang CIMC Sanctum Cryogenic Eq

An offshore wind power industrial park project broke ground at Haiyang Nuclear Power Equipment Manufacturing Park in Haiyang, Yantai, East Chinas Shandong province on Dec 18. The project, first of its kind in Shandong province, is being sup

On December 23, Shandong Port Group announcing the decision on the adjustment of the position of comrades: Li Fengli no longer served as party secretary and chairman of Qingdao Port Group. Jia Funing was appointed as party secretary and cha

Chinese marine fuel suppliers have signed up short-term deals to buy very low-sulphur fuel oil from companies like oil major Shell, Germanys Uniper and U.S. commodities trader Freepoint ahead of a new standard on emissions for the global sh

China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited (CMPort or The Company, HKSE Code: 00144) is pleased to announce that, on 20 December 2019, CMPort entered into the Master Agreement with CMA CGM SA (CMA CGM) and Terminal Link SAS (Terminal Lin

On December 23, 2019, COSCO SHIPPING and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Capt. Xu Lirong, Chairman of COSCO SHIPPING, Mr. Wang Dongjin, Chairman of CNOOC, Mr. Fu Gangfeng,

French ballast water treatment specialist BIO-UV Group has strengthened its global partnership network with Hai Cheung Trading (HCT), a specialist marine equipment supplier based in Hong Kong to reinforce the commercial rollout of BIO-SEA b

Japans JERA has entered into a memorandum of understanding with PetroChina International, a unit of China National Petroleum Corporation, concerning cooperation in the LNG business. Under the MOU, JERA and PCI will discuss opportunities to

From 1 March 2020, not only the use of fuel oil with a sulphur content exceeding 0.50% will be prohibited, but even carrying fuel oil intended for use on board that ship, with a sulphur content exceeding 0.50%, will be prohibited, unless th

Netherlands-based Damen Marine Components (DMC), which specializes in the design and production of rudders, has completed the supply of nine Van der Velden ATLANTIC rudders to COSCO Guangdong Shipyard over a two-and-a-half-year period. The