The administrators of bankrupt Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding has managed to sell the entire assets of the shipyard during a second round auction. The assets were sold for a discounted price of CNY958 million (US$135.7 million), after the firs

July was a busy month for containerized goods movements in the trans-Pacific market as U.S. West Coast ports reported the highest number of inbound boxes for 2019. But overall imports are trending below last years levels, which has forced o

The Liaoning Port Group opened three new routes from Dalian to Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, and South Korea in the first half of this year. Its foreign trade route network now covers more than 300 ports in over 160 countries and regions

Shenzhen, the neighboring city of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), will renovate one of the seven ports that link it to the region and will make it the largest dock facility that provides tourist services. One analyst sa

A key part of a sea-crossing highway bridge of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Main Channel was completed recently. The Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Main Channel is being designed to establish a large cross-sea passage that connects Ningbo, Zhoushan and S

1 Shanghai Yet again Shanghai claims the title for the worlds largest container ship port with 42M TEU but its annual rate of growth has slowed, from 8.3% in 2017 to 4.4% this year. A major factor was slow domestic container growth. From Ja

The deep-water port of Nansha in Guangzhou, a city of 15 million people in the vicinity of Hong Kong, has doubled the number of direct connections with North Europe and West Africa, following the arrival of the Elly Maersk.The Elly Maersk d

Chinese first half port container throughput was up 5.1 per cent year on year to 127 million TEU, according to Ministry of Transport data, reports New Yorks FreightWaves.Box volume throughout the year was steady, with month-to-month figures

Northeast Chinas Liaoning Province is taking various measures to drive new business and boost trade and connectivity with northeastern Asia and Europe. As one of Chinas first coastal cities to open up to the outside world, Dalian is the lar

Several ports on Chinas southern and eastern coast were temporarily shut down to brace for the arrival of typhoon Lekima. The ninth typhoon of this year is moving northwestwards toward eastern provinces with a rising intensity. Its expected

The Huangpu Port economic zone in Guangzhou Development District has positioned itself as a global innovation port area and plans to build 15 rail lines and high-speed railway stations, according to a recent detailed planning report. The ec

The Shanghai port has topped UNCTADs 2019 ranking of the worlds best-connected ports, released on 7 August. The Chinese port garnered a connectivity score of 134 points, followed by the ports of Singapore (124.63 points), Pusan (114.45 poin

The deep-water port of Nansha in Guangzhou has doubled the number of direct connections with North Europe and West Africa, following the arrival of the Elly Maersk on July 28. The vessel is deployed on the 2M alliances upgraded AE7/CONDOR s

Global container port throughput is forecast to rise from 784 million TEU in 2018 to 973 million TEU by 2023 based on the estimate that the worlds ports will collectively achieve average growth of 4.4 per cent per annum over this five-year

China saw an overall growth in cargo throughput at ports in the first half of 2019, according to official data released Sunday. Chinese cargo throughput at ports reached about 6.7 billion tonnes in the first six months, up by 4.5 percent co