Brazilian miner Vale has been shipping a larger proportion of iron ore products to China at the expense of Europe and other Asian customers at a time of weak volumes, according to trade data through to the end of January, SP Globals Panjiva

The growing epidemic is expected to cause the global cross-border direct investment to decline by 5 percent to 15 percent, a senior commerce official said on Thursday. The remarks came as the COVID-19 outbreak has spread rapidly around the

On March 18, COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation issued an announcement saying that the company had issued 730 million shares of non-public stock and raised a total of approximately 5.1 billion yuan. COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation sa

1.The throughput of major ports in China continued to increase last week as economic activities keep picking up pace, the China Ports and Harbours Association (CPHA) said on Wednesday. 2.China is speeding up resumption of main projects in v

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China is projected to overtake Japan as the worlds largest LNG importer by 2022. Chinas decline in February imports from the coronavirus outbreak was viewed as a temporary setback as Chinas overall gas demand is met by rising imports of LNG

Tokyo Current Senior Executive Vice President Hiroaki Sakashita has been appointed as President CEO as well as a Representative Director of leading classification society ClassNK, effective 18 March 2020. Current Senior Executive Vice Presi

The throughput of major ports in China continued to increase last week as economic activities keep picking up pace, the China Ports and Harbours Association (CPHA) said on Wednesday. During the week from March 9 to 15, the throughput of key

Chinas iron ore futures rose on March 18 on further policy support for an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic, before closing well off the sessions peak that was the highest in more than seven months. Steel futures, however, succum

The coronavirus pandemic is impacting global shipping demand for 2020 negatively. The speed of the virus spread makes it difficult to assess the full consequences. Nevertheless, we see a need to update our 2020 forecast to make some of this

China is speeding up resumption of main projects in various regions, with governments at all levels rolling out supportive policies and regulations to recover work effectively while continuing to impose strict control of the COVID-19 outbre

If you want to travel on a cruise these days, think twice. On March 13, the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) announced that cruise ship operations from and to US ports will be temporarily suspended for 30 days as a result of con

A cargo ship from Guinea unloaded 262,000 tons of bauxite at Yantai port, eastern Shandong province on March 16. During the epidemic, Yantai port opened a green channel for materials which improved the efficiency of ship departure, cargo un

MSC MINA and MSC SAMAR, two state-of-the-art and the worlds largest container ships, with a remarkable lifting capacity up to 22.49 tons or 23,656 TEUs, are 400 meters long, 61 meters wide and 81 meters high. The two mega vessels docked at

Frontline, a shipping company owned byJohn Fredriksen, recently completed the acquisition of 10 Suez tankers in Trafigura. This batch of Suez tankers has signed a sale andchartering contract with ICBC Leasing, with a total value of $ 544 mi