HONG KONG's Chief Executive Donald Tsang was to officiate at the opening ceremony of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) diplomatic conference on ship recycling this week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event entitled International Conference on the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships will be used as a platf...
CHINA has replaced the United States as Brazil's biggest trading partner, according to Brazilian trade minister Welber Barral. The news is the latest sign of China's increasing challenge to US hegemony in Latin America, reports London's Daily Telegraph. "China has been steadily increasing its sphere of influence and has become particularly clo...
SOUTH China's Guangdong province posted 10 per cent year-on-year growth in case and luggage export value to US$1.1 billion in the first quarter, with its dominant proportion shifting from processing trades to general trades, reports Xinhua. Provincial case and luggage export value resulting from general trade stood at $570 million in the first quarter, u...
CHINA Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) new service AAE1, which connects to Central America and US east coast ports, has made its maiden call at Shenzhen's Yantian Container Terminal. The service deploys eight ships with capacity of more than 4,000 TEU, calling at Yantian every Friday. Its port rotation is Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen (Yantian), New York,...
MAERSK Line, the world's leading container shipping company, has announced the addition of new transpacific service, the TP10, serving central China and north China on an water route to American east coast ports including a call at Balboa to serve South American and Central American customers. The new TP10 service is part of the vessel sharing agreement ...
ORIENT Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd (TSK Line) and Cosco Container Lines have agreed to operate a new joint service, called the Middle East Express (MEX). The service, to start on May 17, from Shanghai, will comprise five vessels of 7,500 TEU. OOCL and Cosco will provide two vessels each and TSK Line will provide one, a joint c...
Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard successfully carried out the launching of the 1st new vessel at HVS, Hull No. S001, on March 31st. The vessel is the 1st out of 14 vessels for E.R.SCHIFFAHRT and is 187.8m long, 32.2m wide and 18.3m deep. The 2nd vessel’s keel laying followed on April 15th. Meanwhile, HVS has recently commenced the installation work for a 450...
According to the Norwegian class society DNV, 492 vessels of a combined 37.2 million tons deadweight have been cancelled at the world’s shipyards. Of these, 325 vessels of 28.2 million tons are bulkers. This is reported by Lloyd’s List that stresses that the figures are almost double those that of Lloyd’s Register’s estimate. &nbs...
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