Freight rates for shipping coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao port to the ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou in the east and south China moved upwards after the Lunar New Year holidays, Qinhuangdao Port operator Tuesday said.

01 / Fernando A. Solorzano, general director of merchant marine, Panama Maritime Authority PANAMA has maintained its dominance as the world’s biggest registry and enjoys a degree of supremacy that is unparalleled in other shipping secto

BIMCO relaunches ship benchmarking system Shipping KPI after two years of redesign. The system helps shipowners and managers make strategic decisions about their fleet.

Beginning 1 January 2019, all vessels entering Taiwanese ports will be required to use fuel with a sulphur content of less than 0.5%.

The International Maritime Organization intends to ban ships that do not have equipment to strip sulphur from carrying fuel that has a sulphur content above new limits in 2020, an IMO official said on Thursday.

BEIJING - The China Coast Guard participated in 272 maritime rescue operations in 2017, saving 62 ships and 425 people.

IN the Year of the Dog, spot rates for shipping containers from Asia to northern Europe in the week ending Friday ticked up 1.2 per cent to US$916 per TEU, according to the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI).

Out of 67 global shipping lines, 87 percent of the global containership fleet capacity is controlled by 10 ocean liners, according to the data from the UK's MDS Transmodal.

China's first shale gas liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant (phase I) was built recently in Fuling, a city of Chongqing municipal city in southwestern China.

China Merchants Port Holdings Co (CMPort) said it has completed the acquisition of Paranagua Container Terminal (TCP) in Brazil, the country's second-largest container terminal, a statement posted on the company's website said on Monday.

hina Petroleum & Chemical Corp, China's largest oil refiner, is expected to import 10 million metric tons of crude oil from the United States this year, said the company, also known as Sinopec.

CHANGSHA - Five people died after a ship capsized in a river in Central China's Hunan province, local authorities said Monday.

BRITISH waste exporters in are crisis mode because of China's ban on imports of recyclables that are backing up and sending shippers scrambling to find new ways to dispose of 80,000 TEU a year.

NANJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Four people went missing after a fishing boat capsized in east China's Yellow Sea, local authorities said Sunday.

Zhanjiang will speed up the construction of the cargo-passenger ro-ro terminal at Nanshan work zone of Xuwen Port to shorten the travel time across the Qiongzhou Straits, pledged Mayor Jiang Jianjun.