The Nigerian State of Lagos has announced it has signed a series of agreements with the China Development Bank (CDB) and the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the Lekki Deep Seaport, 90 kilometres west of Lagos. The agreemen

Shandong province is expected to be a new powerhouse in the Northeast Asian region, with the eastern Chinese province leading the way in high-quality opening-up, experts said at a high-end forum. Evidence that the province will be an import

Chinas top legislature on Monday started reviewing a draft decision on authorizing the jurisdiction of Macaos port zone at Hengqin port and extended areas in south Chinas Guangdong province to the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

The Chinese port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is on target to finish construction of the new container terminal at Meishan that will have 10 container berths with a maximum annual handling capacity of 10 million TEU at full build-out. The port has ju

Container volumes at the Port of Hong Kong continued to decline for the 20th consecutive month, but at 1.3% it was the shallowest fall since the rot set in in February 2018. The total volumes in September 2019 were 1.468m teu. Drilling down

Chinas Yantai Port Group aims to launch two jointly-owned liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facilities by 2022 and expects government approval for them this month, sources said. Shandong province, where the Yantai port is located, is an i

Caofeidian, one leading port in northern Chinas Tangshan city, has been ramping up its coal throughput capacity, with latest progress embodied in the trial operation of Huadian coal terminal. Since the first discharge of heavy-haul trains o

According to the Ministry of Commerce, ASEAN has become Chinas second largest trading partner in the first half of the year. In the past six months, the China-ASEAN import and export trade volume reached $291.85 billion, a year-on-year incr

On October 9, the Greek Committee of Planning and Development of Ports (ESAL) confirmed, in its press release, the approval of the PPA Master Plan, which had been examined by the Committee during its meeting on September 25. ESAL said the a

The Ningbo Zhoushan Port has grown from a wharf to one of the worlds busiest ports during 70 years. Now, it is speeding up to build itself into a strong port in the world, with the development of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Yangtze Ri

SMM estimates that 83 vessels carrying 13.8 million mt of iron ore arrived at major Chinese ports during September 29-October 5, up 2.54 million mt from the week ended September 21. Arrivals at ports in east China and along the Yangtze Rive

A Chinese-funded port under the Belt and Road initiative is now in its initial stages of construction in the prime location of Sao Luis, the capital of the state of Maranhao. The Port of Sao Luis, which is expected to be operational in the

Coal exports of Australias Gladstone port to China plunged 80.12% from a year earlier to the lowest level since March 2016, amid ongoing uncertainty of Chinese import restriction on Australian coal. In September, Gladstone port shipped 159,

Caofeidian district in the northern city of Tangshan will make full use of its recently inaugurated free-trade zone (FTZ) and build itself into a world-class integrated trade port, a senior official said Friday. The district, located on the

Local authorities making great progress in development, reform and opening-up Hainan has made solid progress in deepening reform and opening-up since the central government decided in April 2018 to turn the entire Hainan Island into the cou