Major ports in coastal areas of China have restored their operations to roughly the pre-COVID-19 level, which will help sustain the global supply chain that has been hit hard by the pandemic, experts said. While doing their part to contain

A pair of parallel pipelines in white and green stretch from the shore of Zhoushan in East Chinas Zhejiang province, where night and day they pump oil, water and marine fuel onto ships waiting just off the coast. It has become a common scen

On 3 April 2020, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) issued a media release on Additional Measures to Minimise Further Spread of COVID-19. All business, social, or other activities that cannot be conducted through telecommuting from home

On April 1, China issued a notice, during the prevention and control of the epidemic, international cargo ships are prohibited to carry people other than their crews entering into Chinese ports. The notice emphasized that international carg

SMM estimates that there were 69 vessels carrying 11 million mt of iron ore arrived at major Chinese ports during March 22-28, down 750,000 mt from the week ended March 21 but up 1.02 million mt from the same period a year earlier. Arrivals

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Sunday inspected the resumption of work and production in east Chinas Zhejiang Province. Xi visited the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, one of

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited, the worlds leading ports operator, today announced full year results of the Company and its subsidiaries (the Group) for the year ended 31 December 2019. 2019 Full-year Results Highlight  Revenue rose by 2.7

Some ports in India including those owned by Adani Ports SEZ Ltd have declared force majeure after Asias third-biggest economy announced a 21-day lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, documents seen by Reuters showed. The feder

The southern Port of Fuzhou in Fujian province has finished the build of two new berths within the Songxia port area.The works includes one 50,000-tonnes bulk cargo berth (available for vessels up to 100,000 tonnes) and one general cargo be

The throughput of major ports in China continued to increase last week as economic activities keep picking up pace, the China Ports and Harbours Association (CPHA) said on Wednesday. During the week from March 9 to 15, the throughput of key

A cargo ship from Guinea unloaded 262,000 tons of bauxite at Yantai port, eastern Shandong province on March 16. During the epidemic, Yantai port opened a green channel for materials which improved the efficiency of ship departure, cargo un

MSC MINA and MSC SAMAR, two state-of-the-art and the worlds largest container ships, with a remarkable lifting capacity up to 22.49 tons or 23,656 TEUs, are 400 meters long, 61 meters wide and 81 meters high. The two mega vessels docked at

Taiwan has finished the land reclamation project at the Port of Kaohsiung to facilitate the building of the new mega ship Intercontinental Container Terminal (ICT). The project, known as ICT phase two, is the largest infrastructure project

Chinas southern coal import region of Xinsha in Guangdong province has issued verbal notices to local shipping agents and traders to restrict seaborne thermal coal arriving after March 16 as the local import volume has exceeded the quota of

Severe congestion at Chinese ports is easing, say officials and industry participants, although a logjam of refrigerated containers has disrupted supplies of fresh and frozen food and pushed up freight rates outside China. Thousands of refr