1.China on Wednesday ordered a safety inspection of ports, wharfs, chemical industrial parks, warehouses and other places which store toxic and hazardous items, after an explosion in Beirut.
2.Cosco is shuffling top management at subsidiary OOCL once again. The new line-up sees a familiar face in the form of Huang Xiaowen returning as chief executive officer.
3.Coal shipments through the railway network across China totaled 1.12 billion tonnes in the first six months this year.
4.Construction has commenced on the southern part of the China-Russia East natural gas pipeline.
5.UK-based insurance and reinsurance broker Oneglobal has chosen Asia veteran Anthony Langridge as chairman of the company’s new Hong Kong office.
6.China’s external position in 2019 was broadly in line with the level “implied by medium-term fundamentals and desirable policies,” IMF said.
7.Pieter de Ridder, managing partner, Mayer Brown, Singapore, and Conor Warde, examine the latest government-led initiative to attract marine-related business to Hong Kong.
8.Shipping industry veteran Richard Hext has been appointed as the new chairman of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
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