Greater China
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Seaspan orders LNG bunkering vessels from CIMC Enric
Canada’s Seaspan has ordered two 7,600m3 LNG bunkering vessels, with an option for a third vessel, from Nantong CIMC Sinopacific…
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Transfar takes 4,600 teu boxship for $200,000 a day
Money is no object to the Singapore-registered, Alibaba-linked Transfar Shipping – getting box tonnage, whatever the costs is the priority…
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Wan Hai slapped with fine from the California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board has reached a settlement agreement with Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines, setting a $680,750 fine over…
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Gerry Wang finds container work for novel gas carrier
MPPs, dry bulk carriers – even product tankers have been proposed to move containers during box shipping’s record earnings run.…
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Cosco and DSIC float methanol-fuelled VLCC design
China’s Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation (CSET), the tanker operation unit of Cosco Shipping Group, and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co (DSIC),…
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Hapag-Lloyd to launch new service linking Southern China with Germany
Hamburg-based liner Hapag-Lloyd is launching a new service in April this year that will connect Southern China with Northern Europe…
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Xingtong Shipping readies Shanghai IPO
Chinese chemical tanker player Xingtong Shipping will invest much of the proceeds from an upcoming IPO on expanding its fleet…
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CULines returns to Huangpu Wenchong for more feeder boxships
China United Lines (CULines) has placed an order at Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding for the construction of two 2,700 teu feeder…
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Wanhua taps Jiangnan for ethane carriers
Wanhua Chemical Group has ordered two firm and two optional 99,000 cu m very large ethane carriers at Jiangnan Shipyard…
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H-Line in for more GSI car carriers
South Korean bulker owner H-Line which entered the car carrier sector last year with its first order for 7,000 ceu…
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OCBC Bank backs U-Ming’s sustainable fleet renewal with $70m loan
Singapore’s OCBC Bank has extended a $70m sustainability-linked loan to Taiwanese dry bulk shipping operator U-Ming Marine Transport. The loan…
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MOL orders ice class tanker at GSI for Arctic LNG 2 charter
Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has placed an order at CSSC-affiliated Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) for the construction of…
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CULines readies Hong Kong IPO
China United Lines (CULines), one of the fastest growing container carriers during the pandemic, is gearing up for a listing…
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Sapura Energy terminates offshore wind farm contract in Taiwan
Malaysian offshore contractor Sapura Energy has issued a termination notice to Yunneng Wind Power in respect of a contract for…
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35% of trade capacity on the transpacific to the west coast is now non-alliance
The transpacific has seen so many new players enter the red-hot tradelane during the pandemic to the point where non-alliance…
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Jackup as tall as the Eiffel Tower launched in China
Belgian offshore contractor Jan De Nul has launched its largest jackup vessel to date at the COSCO Shipping Shipyard in…
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Chinese desk manufacturer orders 1,800 teu boxship
It was in June last year that Splash first reported of a major retailer, Home Depot, chartering in container tonnage…
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Cosco Shipping Ports seals Zeebrugge terminal extension
Hong Kong-listed terminal operator Cosco Shipping Ports (CSP) has struck a deal with the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge to extend…
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Ulstein enters Chinese offshore wind market with SOV designs for Shanghai Electric
Norwegian shipbuilder and designer Ulstein has secured a contract from Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) shipyard to design two types…
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Marco Polo Marine bolsters Taiwanese offshore wind business with PKR Offshore acquisition
Singapore offshore vessel owner and operator Marco Polo Marine has strengthened its foothold in the growing Taiwanese offshore wind sector…
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