Some ports in India including those owned by Adani Ports SEZ Ltd have declared force majeure after Asias third-biggest economy announced a 21-day lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, documents seen by Reuters showed. The feder

The southern Port of Fuzhou in Fujian province has finished the build of two new berths within the Songxia port area.The works includes one 50,000-tonnes bulk cargo berth (available for vessels up to 100,000 tonnes) and one general cargo be

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

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

Taiwan has finished the land reclamation project at the Port of Kaohsiung to facilitate the building of the new mega ship Intercontinental Container Terminal (ICT). The project, known as ICT phase two, is the largest infrastructure project

Chinas southern coal import region of Xinsha in Guangdong province has issued verbal notices to local shipping agents and traders to restrict seaborne thermal coal arriving after March 16 as the local import volume has exceeded the quota of

Severe congestion at Chinese ports is easing, say officials and industry participants, although a logjam of refrigerated containers has disrupted supplies of fresh and frozen food and pushed up freight rates outside China. Thousands of refr

Hong Kongs medical experts on Thursday said that to stop the further spread of the novel coronavirus, the government should tighten up port quarantine measures for overseas arrivals - especially those from Europe. As of Thursday, 21 of the

China will lower the service charges of ports to optimize the business environment and promote the work resumption of logistics firms, according to an official circular. The circular, issued by the Ministry of Transport and the National Dev

A total of five international liner ship lines departing from Guangzhou Port have been launched from Feb 27 to March 7, mainly heading to Southeast Asian countries. The line running between South Korea and Xinsha Port of Guangzhou Port in G

The worlds largest port in terms of cargo throughput in the past decade, Ningbo-Zhoushan, has mapped out a significant expansion to its far flung set of container terminals. The port, which handled 1.12 billion tonnes of cargo last year, a

The Tianjin Port Group realized throughput of 1.365 million standard containers in January, up 7.5 percent year-on-year, with the growth rate ranking the first in the countrys coastal ports in the period. The port on the coast of the Bohai

On March 4th, with the completion of the transfer of 79,000 tons ofcrude oil fromBPsship San Ramon to the transit ship Surgut,the maiden voyage of Shandong Port foreign trade crude oil international transit was successfully launched.It mark

Chinas removal of port construction fees for all import and export goods and a 20% reduction in all other government port charges over March 1 to June 30 could spur a modest uptick in seaborne coal trading activity and reduce costs for end-