The first batch of power generating units of the furthest offshore wind farm in China Dafeng offshore wind farm, established by Jiangsu branch of China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd, has come into operation on April 28, sources reported. It is lea

The construction of the 500-kilovolt(kv) ultra-high voltage submarine cable laid beneath the Zhoushan Strait located in east Chinas Zhejiang Province enters its final cablecasting stage and will be ready for operation in mid-June. Linking t

Chinas iron ore futures finished higher on Monday. The most active contract for September 2019 delivery finished the day session up 0.55 percent to 638 yuan per ton. China has opened the domestically-traded iron ore futures to foreign inves

Ship support companies should embrace tech and increase transparency to avert a race to the bottom and all the risks that entails, writes Frank Coles, CEO Wallem Group. Ship management companies have earned a bad name by chasing market shar

Joined up thinking on technology standards and shipping rules critical if autonomous shipping is to prove seaworthy says Pivi Haikkola, One Sea Ecosystem Lead A series of vessel trials in Finnish waters at the turn of the year highlighted s

Chinas bulk commodity market continued to grow in April with stable expansion in supply and sales, industrial data showed. The China Bulk Merchandise Index (CBMI), a gauge of domestic bulk commodity market growth, stood above the boom-or-bu

Zhuhai Port is rated 7th among the Worlds Most Promising Container Ports in the Global Port Development Report 2018 recently released by the Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI). The international maritime consultation and resea

DNV GL, the technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, has developed a solution that reduces the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors with a machine learning algorithm that

1.Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas International Ltd. (OOIL) said that it will sell Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) to a consortium led by Australias Macquarie Group for $1.78 billion. 2.Chinas shipbuilding capacity utilization retreate

Hong Kongs Secretary for Transport Housing, Frank Chan revealed details of the Marine Departments first regional desks at the annual Hong Kong Shipowners Association/Marine Department annual lunch last Friday (3 May). Mr Chan, who is also C

Chinas COSCO Shipping Pisces, one the worlds largest container ships with a capacity of 20,000 TEUs, docked at Abu Dhabi Terminal at Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, signifying that the service capacity of th

COSCO Shipping Lines and its Ocean Alliance plan to significantly increase the number of calls at the Zeebrugge port, which according to new analaysis from Alphaliner, shows that Cosco is about to realise its ambitions to turn the Belgian p

Spot rates for shipping containers from Asia to northern Europe in the week ending Friday was around US$700 per TEU, according to a poll of spot indices carried out by Londons Loadstar. The Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI) was un

Chinas shipbuilding capacity utilization retreated in the first quarter of 2019 due to a sluggish global market, data from China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) showed. In the first three months, CCI, a monitoring

The Xiamen-Kaohsiung ferry route was temporarily reopened on April 29 after a five-year suspension, as 573 passengers boarded the COSCO Star ship headed for the Taiwan city of Kaohsiung on April 29. We arrived in Kaohsiung after just one ni