Chinas waterway freight volume rose 5.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter (Q1) of the year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed. More than 1.93 billion tons of waterway cargo were transported in the period, according to the m

On April 22, Chinas first self-developed 300TEU container ship ZHI FEI was officially delivered and put into operation in Qingdao Port, Shandong. The ship was put into operation by Shandong Port Group on the route from Qingdao Port to Dongj

South Africa has become the 17th signatory* to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct (DCoC). The Jeddah Amendment was adopted in 2017 to broaden the scope of the DcoC, which was developed and adopted in 2009 by countries in t

This article contains crucial information regarding navigation in Ningbo-Zhoushan VTS zone NO.1 (including its adjacentareas） providing clarification and guidance for international seafarers. 01 DIRECTIONS FOR INBOUND VESSELS Entering the

CIMC Enric Holdings Limited together with its subsidiaries announced its operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022, with revenue up 24.9% year-over-year (YoY) to RMB4.16 billion, newly-signed orders up 23.2% YoY to RMB4.8

Construction work for an offshore wind power industrial park started at Guangli Harbor Area of Bohai Bay Port Group on April 16, with a number of government officials and enterprise representatives attending the commencement ceremony. The o

China remained the worlds leading shipbuilder in the first quarter of the year, taking up nearly half of the international market share in terms of output and new and holding orders, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Techno

The average daily throughput of containers at the Shanghai port has been over 100,000 TUEs (twenty-foot equivalent units) since the beginning of April, a sign that the citys function as an international shipping center has been steady even

The Baltic Exchanges dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships ferrying dry bulk commodities, rose to a more than two-week high on Thursday, driven by gains in the capesize segment. * The overall index, which factors in rates

Where Barrels Go It has been almost two months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Over this period, we have seen several rounds of sanctions being placed by Western governments. Most notably for our sector, Russian crude/oil products trade into

A screen capture of SeaTrust-Frame 3D in action Korean Register (KR) has launched SeaTrust-Frame3D, a grillage structure evaluation software for ships. SeaTrust-Frame3D enables a complicated ship structure to be simply modelled by represent

Heres a wild fact Id never heard: Biofouling on ship hulls increases fuel consumption around 15% on average. The term specifically refers to a build-up of microorganisms and other life. That includes a wide range of different creatures, lik

On April 19, the first 13,000-dwt LNG dual-fuel chemical tanker BIT WAVE built by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group for Swedish shipowner TARBIT successfully delivered. The ship is also the first LNG dual-fuel chemical tanker built by Yangziji

Shell Marine announced that it has received a full No Objection Letter (NOL) from MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) for Shell Alexia 40 XC, its Category II (CAT II) 40BN cylinder oil, confirming the successful completion of the full approval pr

As the climate emergency impacts every corner of the world, the basic human necessity of access to fresh water is one of the most urgent challenges facing the planet. While land-based desalination plants have been built all over the world i