1.During a maritime safety seminar held by Hong Kong Marine Department yesterday, the department proposed to set up four ship speed limit areas each at Tai Po and Sai Kung, adding to 21 existing speed limit areas.

 

2.China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port reported a container throughput of 26m teu in 2018, pushing it up into the ranks world’s top three container port for the first time.

 

3.The price of soybeans did not see big fluctuations last year, despite the drastic fall of imports from the United States following a tariff increase, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Wednesday.

 

4.Hong Kong-listed shipbuilding company China Ocean Industry Group has found a potential buyer for two of the six ships, the delivery of which to their original owners had been delayed.

 

5.Shanghai International Port (Group) Co Ltd (SIPG), the largest port group in the Chinese mainland, reported a record high container throughput last year.SIPG said Tuesday that its container throughput in 2018 reached 42.01 million standard containers, or twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), up 4.4 percent year-on-year.

 

6.Annual cargo throughput surpassed 1 billion tonnes again at Ningbo Zhoushan port in East China's Zhejiang Province in 2018, the port operator said Tuesday.

 

7.China's iron ore futures edged higher on January 16, extending gains for a third straight day as traders assessed the disruption to supply following a fire at a Rio Tinto export terminal in Australia. 

 

8.Chinese bunker supplier Southernpec Corp is scrapping a floating storage and offloading unit. Demolition brokers say the 299,000-dwt Marine Star (built 1994) has been sold as is in Malaysia for $410 per ldt, or $16.8m.

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