With the start of the new year, Korean Register (KR) has launched the KR PSC ADVISER mobile app to help customers prepare for Port State Control (PSC) inspections. The new service is designed to reduce the risk of PSC detentions by providin

Chery Automobile， Anhui Provincial Port Shipping Group and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group jointly established Anhui Hangrui International Ro-Ro Transportation with a registered capital of 900 million yuan. So far this year, Chinas auto

4January2023. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)welcomed the China Shipowners Association (CSA) as a Full Member from 1 January 2023. The CSA will join the ICS Board, which oversees the policy positions ICS presents on behalf of sh

The rail-sea intermodal freight trains running along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor transported a total of 756,000 TEUs of containers, up 18.5 percent year-on-year, said the railway authority in South Chinas Guangxi Zhuang au

Illustration courtesy Gama Ocean carrier CMA CGM sails to six continents and dozens of islands, but its latest project will take its reach even further. The French shipping company has co-sponsored the first test launch of a French solar sa

Paris January 3th, 2023.GTT announces that it has received an order from its partnertheChineseshipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Ltd. for the tank design of six new Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers (LNGC), on behalf of several

The cargo throughput of Shandong Port Group (SPG) exceeded 1.6 billion metric tons this year, the most in the world and a 6.4 percent year-on-year increase, whilethe port group handled a total container throughput of 37 million TEUs (twenty

Taiwanese shipping companyWan Hai Lines held ship naming ceremonies for three 3,013 TEU containerships built by Japan Marine United Corporation TSU Shipyard. The vessels were named WAN HAI 356, WAN HAI 358, and WAN HAI 359. Image credit Wan

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 79) of the International Maritime organization (IMO) has made progress towards revising the Initial IMO GHG Strategy, working towards adopting a strengthened revised Strategy in mid-2023 at

Copenhagen:Today, A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) announces the completion of its acquisition of Martin Bencher Group, a Danish Project Logistics expert with premium capabilities within non-containerised project logistics and global operation

The Chinese economy has remained the second largest in the world and enjoyed sound development over the year, said Chinese President Xi Jinping when delivering the New Year speech, adding that the countrys GDP for the whole year is expected

Shanghai Port remained the worlds busiest container port for the 13th straight year in 2022, despite the COVID-19 epidemic, port data showed Monday. The ports container throughput exceeded 47.3 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 202

A ship unloading cargo at the ore wharf in Caofeidian Port area, Tangshan Port, in north Chinas Hebei Province, July 18, 2022. /Xinhua With the lingering impact of COVID-19 and negative spillover from the situation in Ukraine, the global ec

On December 29, a seminar on Safe Shipping (online), with the theme of fire risk and prevention measures of new energy vehicle transport, was held by China Shipowners Association and Xinde Marine News and co-organized by the DMUMAT. The sem

Vikings cruise ship missed four ports due to biofouling (Viking file photo) For the second time in two weeks, a cruise ship has been refused port calls due to biofouling. Passengers aboard Vikings luxury cruise shipViking Orion, which inclu