Chinas polar icebreakers Xuelong (Snow Dragon) and Xuelong 2 met at the Port of Hobart in southern Australia on Thursday, the first time for two Chinese icebreakers to meet at a foreign harbor. Setting off from Shenzhen City of south Chinas

Taicang Port in East Chinas Jiangsu province, the largest container port along the Yangtze River, has improved its efficiency over the first three quarters of 2019. From January to September, the ports cargo throughput amounted to 164.15 mi

Kenyas Chinese-built port in the coastal island of Lamu is expected to be launched in December, the port agency said on Monday. Daniel Manduku, managing director of Kenya Ports Authority(KPA) told Xinhua in Nairobi that the facility that wa

Chinas polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, berths in the port of Hobart, Australia, Nov. 4, 2019. After a 20-day voyage, the Chinese icebreaker on Chinas 36th Antarctic research expedition docked in Australias port of Hobart on Mo

On October 31, Qingdao Port successfully completed automatic loading of 7637TEU export container of MSC Zoe (including 415TEU of dangerous goods), realizing the worlds first traditional container terminal automatic loading of all ships. The

Singapore co-owner of Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk, PSA International, unveils ambition to grow TEU capacity to 7million a year eventually from 2.2million in 2018 Bilateral trade between countries now exceeds 7billion Delegatio

Natural gas imports via North Chinas Tianjin port soared 91.2 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters to 7.12 million tons, according to Tianjin Customs Tuesday. The imports were all liquefied natural gas, and the total value grew

The Nigerian State of Lagos has announced it has signed a series of agreements with the China Development Bank (CDB) and the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the Lekki Deep Seaport, 90 kilometres west of Lagos. The agreemen

Shandong province is expected to be a new powerhouse in the Northeast Asian region, with the eastern Chinese province leading the way in high-quality opening-up, experts said at a high-end forum. Evidence that the province will be an import

Chinas top legislature on Monday started reviewing a draft decision on authorizing the jurisdiction of Macaos port zone at Hengqin port and extended areas in south Chinas Guangdong province to the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

The Chinese port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is on target to finish construction of the new container terminal at Meishan that will have 10 container berths with a maximum annual handling capacity of 10 million TEU at full build-out. The port has ju

Container volumes at the Port of Hong Kong continued to decline for the 20th consecutive month, but at 1.3% it was the shallowest fall since the rot set in in February 2018. The total volumes in September 2019 were 1.468m teu. Drilling down

Chinas Yantai Port Group aims to launch two jointly-owned liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facilities by 2022 and expects government approval for them this month, sources said. Shandong province, where the Yantai port is located, is an i

Caofeidian, one leading port in northern Chinas Tangshan city, has been ramping up its coal throughput capacity, with latest progress embodied in the trial operation of Huadian coal terminal. Since the first discharge of heavy-haul trains o

According to the Ministry of Commerce, ASEAN has become Chinas second largest trading partner in the first half of the year. In the past six months, the China-ASEAN import and export trade volume reached $291.85 billion, a year-on-year incr