1.China's omission of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its vast list of U.S. products that face hefty import duties from July 6 has preserved a potential weapon should the trade war with Washington deepen.
2.A U.S. cargo ship containing soybean exports bound for China is steaming toward the country in hopes of beating a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soybeans expected to be implemented Friday.
3.Djibouti FTZ starts,can handle trade worth $7b in 2 years.
4.Oil prices went down on Thursday as official data showed U.S. crude inventories rose unexpectedly last week.
5.Bjorn Hojgaard, chief executive of Anglo Eastern Group, Hong Kong’s largest ship manager, has thrown his weight behind a proposal to halve corporate tax rates for ship leasing companies and maritime support firms to 8.25%.
6.Ocean Alliance rejigs Asia to Middle East services and Service coverage will continue to include mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Busan, Southeast Asia, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
7.China presses the EU to issue a joint statement against US’s trade policies and recent tariffs, at a Sino-European summit later this month. EU rejected it as it thinks that Chinese proposal is an attempt to manipulate the of trade and dominate global markets.
8.Shanghai targets cruise supply chain development.Seeing some 1.5 million passengers in 2017, Shanghai’s Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal (WSK) has become China’s central cruise hub.
XINDE MARINE NEWS editor：Anita
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