Northeast Chinas Liaoning Province is taking various measures to drive new business and boost trade and connectivity with northeastern Asia and Europe. As one of Chinas first coastal cities to open up to the outside world, Dalian is the lar

Several ports on Chinas southern and eastern coast were temporarily shut down to brace for the arrival of typhoon Lekima. The ninth typhoon of this year is moving northwestwards toward eastern provinces with a rising intensity. Its expected

The Huangpu Port economic zone in Guangzhou Development District has positioned itself as a global innovation port area and plans to build 15 rail lines and high-speed railway stations, according to a recent detailed planning report. The ec

The Shanghai port has topped UNCTADs 2019 ranking of the worlds best-connected ports, released on 7 August. The Chinese port garnered a connectivity score of 134 points, followed by the ports of Singapore (124.63 points), Pusan (114.45 poin

The deep-water port of Nansha in Guangzhou has doubled the number of direct connections with North Europe and West Africa, following the arrival of the Elly Maersk on July 28. The vessel is deployed on the 2M alliances upgraded AE7/CONDOR s

Global container port throughput is forecast to rise from 784 million TEU in 2018 to 973 million TEU by 2023 based on the estimate that the worlds ports will collectively achieve average growth of 4.4 per cent per annum over this five-year

China saw an overall growth in cargo throughput at ports in the first half of 2019, according to official data released Sunday. Chinese cargo throughput at ports reached about 6.7 billion tonnes in the first six months, up by 4.5 percent co

MSC Gulsun, the worlds largest container ship by carrying capacity, arrived at the container wharf of Shenzhens Yantian Port in South Chinas Guangdong province on July 23. At 399.9 meters long and 61.5 meters wide, the ship is capable of ca

The ports of HPH Trust, witnessed a 1% decline in throughput for the first half of the year. A respectable growth in the number of boxes handled at Yantian International Container Terminal of 5% was dragged down by a 7% decline in throughpu

Ningbo Zhoushan port, Chinas busiest port, saw cargo throughput rise 5.5 percent year-on-year to 557.96 million tons in the first half of 2019. Meanwhile, the container throughput at the port in eastern Chinas Zhejiang province reached 13.9

Guangzhou plans to build the worlds first automated unmanned parallel container quay for the fourth phase construction of the Nansha area of Guangzhou Port by 2021. The fourth phase includes construction of four 100,000-metricton ship berth

The worlds largest cargo ship, the MSC Gulsun, sailed into Yangshan Deep-Water Port, the worlds largest automated container port, early Saturday. Built by South Koreas Samsung Heavy Industries for the Mediterranean Shipping Co, the vessel s

Ports in Guangxi in southern China and Jingtang port have halted custom declarations for all coal imports effective Monday, close on the heels of similar curbs at a northern port, stoking fears of wider restrictions for imported coal, marke

Eastern Chinas Rizhao port plans to charge higher storage fee for coke cargoes that have long been stored at the port, sources said, as a way to alleviate the shortage of storage places. The port authority would impose 1-2 yuan/t for coke s

A greater number of containers were handled at Taicang Port in East Chinas Jiangsu province, neighboring Shanghai, constantly reinforcing the ports leading position in foreign trade along the Yangtze River. Statistics from the port show a t