2M Alliance members Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have added a port call in Nansha - in southern Chinas Guangdong province - to its US east coast service via the Suez Canal to New York, Charleston, Savannah, Miami and

Global spare production capacity is not enough to compensate for the decline in Saudi Arabias oil production after the recent attacks on two of the countrys oil facilities and the consequent inventory drawdown will therefore underpin oil pr

BUDD Group reports that each vessel calling at anchorage at Base Buoy (B9) at Douala Port, Cameroon will now be provided with an armed security team for their protection. This team will remain onboard the vessel throughout her stay at ancho

RFIB Group Limited, the international insurance and reinsurance broker, has said that its Hong Kong subsidiary has been admitted as a member of the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers and is approved to transact general insurance b

The Baltic Exchanges main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships ferrying dry bulk commodities, fell for the 11th consecutive session on September 19, marking its biggest percentage fall in nearly two months, on waning capesize demand.

Spread between high-low sulphur fuel oil has widened sharply in recent weeks as preparations ahead of the January 1 deadline gathered pace. The price differential between 0.5% and 3.5% sulphur fuel oil for Jan-20 contracts in Singapore surg

COSCO SHIPPING Ports has sold multiple port assets to Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG). DISPOSAL OF INTEREST IN VARIOUS PORT ASSETS On 18 September 2019, the Company (as seller) entered into the Longtan Share Purchase Agreement, Yua

The World Shipping Council (WSC), BIMCO, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and the International Parcel Tankers Association (IPTA) calls on International Maritime Organization (IMO) member states to fully implement the new

1.COSCO SHIPPING Ports sell multiple port assets and may sell Taicang Terminal and Jiangsu Petrochemical Terminal 2.Ms Quah Ley Hoon, Chief Executive of MPA, signed a MoU with Mr Noriel Araz, Minister of Maritime Affairs and AMP to strength

McDermott International said that its Chinese joint venture Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering has been awarded the Arctic LNG 2 modules fabrication job. The joint venture has been awarded a contract to provide three modules for

The vessel Tian Xi run by COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co Ltd and loaded with close to 30,000 metric tons of paper pulp from Helsinki, capital of Finland, arrived in Qingdao, East Chinas Shandong province, on Tuesday. The arrival sig

China will build a Type 071E amphibious transport dock ship for export to Thailand, the largest naval ship the nation will have built for a foreign user. China State Shipbuilding Corp, a State-owned shipbuilding conglomerate and one of the

Pacific Basin, Hong Kongs most successful minor bulk player is to acquire four dry bulk vessels including two Supramax and two Handymax for a total of US$73.84m. The company said that the bill for the vessels will be split between cash and

On the afternoon of September 18th, a delegation led by Mr. Andrew Smith, President of Shell International Trading Shipping Company, visited COSCO SHIPPING headquarters in Shanghai. Mr.Huang Xiaowen, Executive Vice President of COSCO SHIPPI

Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Senior Minister of State for Health of the Republic of Singapore led the first high-level delegation from Singapore to Panama under the new government of Panama. Dr Lam met with sev