On 15 August 2023,Wallenius Wilhelmsen announces that the company has signed a letter of intent for four firm, and eight optional, next generation vessels! Wallenius Wilhelmsen can finally share that the company has signed a letter of inten

International cargo and passengershipping from east Chinas Shandong Province to South Korea resumed on Friday following nearly 1,300 days of hiatus due to the pandemic. The New Grand Peace cargo-passenger vessel sailing under the flag of Pa

Singapore, 15 August 2023, 12PM, SGT The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) successfully bunkered the third supply chain of a biofuel blend as part of its pilot to develop a quality, quantity and GHG abatement assurance frame

NANJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- East Chinas economic powerhouse Jiangsu Province recorded a total import and export volume of 2.93 trillion yuan (about 409.29 billion U.S. dollars) from January to July, the customs of Nanjing, capital city of

The Panama Flag Ship Registry administered by the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), added more than 5.9m GRT only in the first half of 2023, according to the institutions database. According to the international platform IHS Markit, at the e

Hamburg, 14 August 2023: Container xChange, an online container logistics platform, published its August Container Market Forecaster today. Despite the ongoing market fluctuations, the Container Price Sentiment Index (xCPSI) has exhibited r

One of the widespread practices in the beauty industry is that expired finished goods (FG), such as skincare and makeup products, would be identified as general waste and sent to the incinerator under Singapores waste management context. Al

[Photo by Jiang Xueqing/China Daily] China has overtaken Greece to become the worlds largest ship-owning country in terms of gross tonnage, according to information released over the weekend by the Shanghai-based China Shipowners Associatio

If You Build It, They Will Come In recent years we have seen a remarkable increase in VLCC flows out of the US Gulf (USG) as overall US crude production increased thanks to the shale revolution. Traditionally, most US crude cargoes are load

On August 10, 2023, CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuildingcollaborated with China ShipbuildingTradingand South Korean HMMheld a signing ceremony for the new shipbuilding orderof four 38,000dwt multi-purpose heavy lift vessels. HMMis headquarter

[Photo/Xinhua] NANNING Recently, a container ship loaded with shrimp slices, melons and aquatic products departed from the seaport of Muara in Brunei to Qinzhou Port in South Chinas Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, with the cargo to be del

Introduction In the first half of 2023, 114 vessels were sold for scrap, a 73% increase over the same period in 2022. 51 tankers were scrapped, accounting for 44.7% of all cargo vessel demolition in the first half of 2023. The rising scrapp

The latest Seafarers Happiness Index (SHI) report for Quarter 2, 2023, reveals a further decline in overall happiness reported by participating seafarers. The survey is an initiative led by The Mission to Seafarers, conducted in association

Carrier Transicold has signed an agreement with the Telangana State Trade Promotion Corporation (TSTPC) to advance cold chain development and training in India. This aims to support Carriers focus on expanding the cold chain, which can help

Simpson Spence Young (SSY), the worlds largest independent shipbroker, has today announced the appointment of Jarl Magnus Berge to the role of Global Head of Finance, effective from 14th August 2023. Jarl Magnus A finance specialist with ov