Greater China Shipping News - Chinese Maritime & Offshore Updates

Greater China

Qingdao Port and G2 Ocean form pulp shipping partnership

January 11th, 20190 Qingdao Port International Logistics, the logistics unit of Qingdao Port Group, has entered into an agreement with G2 Ocean to form a partnership on pulp shipping and...

Greater China

Cosco inks Japanese leasing deal for four 10,000 teu boxships

January 11th, 20190 Cosco Shipping Development has entered into a sale and leaseback agreement with Japanese leasing outfit Financial Products Group for four of the company's...

Greater China

Taiwanese quartet form offshore wind services venture

January 11th, 20190 Four of Taiwan’s largest maritime companies are joining forces to tap into the island’s fast developing offshore wind sector. Shipowners Yang Ming and Taiwan...

Greater China

Sinotrans Shipping privatisation approved by court

January 11th, 20190 Sinotrans Shipping has announced that the company's scheme of privatisation has been approved by the High Court of Hong Kong yesterday. Sinotrans Shipping announced...

Greater China

Calls grow for Beijing to scrap ship recycling ban

January 10th, 20190 Calls are growing for Beijing to scrap its ban on importing ships for recycling. Effective January 1, China, the fourth largest shipbreaking nation in the world, has...

Greater China

Fortune Ocean Shipping logger sale falls through

January 10th, 20190 Chinese bulker owner Fortune Ocean Shipping has had a deal fall through to sell four 2015-built 34,400 dwt handysize bulkers in an en bloc deal. Brokers are once...

Greater China

Brightoil VLCC arrested in Haikou

January 10th, 20190 Haikou Maritime Court has announced that it has arrested a VLCC owned by a Hong Kong company at Yangpu Port at the request of the vessel owner's creditor bank in...

Greater China

ZPMC awarded offshore substation project

January 10th, 20190 Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has won a contract from state-run CGN Group in a tender process for a major offshore project. Under the contract, ZPMC will...

Greater China

Mass resignations continue at CSC Phoenix

January 10th, 20190 The resignation crisis at Chinese bulk shipping operator CSC Phoenix continues, with another nine managers from the company's crewing subsidiary Wuhan CSC Crewing...

Greater China

Blaze put out on Vietnamese tanker off Hong Kong

January 9th, 20190 The Vietnamese product tanker that suffered a massive explosion while taking on bunker fuel near an outlying island in Hong Kong on Tuesday morning is not in danger of...

Greater China

Hong Kong port operators unite amid flagging volumes

January 9th, 20190 The operators of what was once the world’s largest container port are coming together amid flagging volumes to try and generate efficiencies. Hutchison Port...

Greater China

Haizhou Shipyard files for bankruptcy

January 9th, 20190 Zhejiang Haizhou Shipyard, one of the largest ship repair yards in China, has filed for bankruptcy. The yard has been suffering financial difficulties for the past...

Greater China

Goldenport orders ultramax pair at Cosco Shipping Heavy

January 9th, 20190 Greek owner Dragnis family's Goldenport Shipmanagement has placed an order at China's Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry (CSHI) for the construction of two ultramax bulk...

Greater China

Giant tanker explosion rocks outlying island off Hong Kong

January 8th, 20197 The 2010-built product tanker caught fire following a massive explosion onboard near Hong Kong’s Lamma Island at around 11:30am this morning. The 17,500 dwt vessel...

Greater China

Yingluck Shinawatra appointed chairwoman of Shantou International Container Terminal

January 8th, 20191 Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been appointed as chairwoman of China's Shantou International Container Terminal (SICT). According to...

Greater China

Former CSIC general manager Sun officially arrested

January 8th, 20190 Sun Bo, the former general manager of state-run shipbuilding conglomerate CSIC, has been officially arrested following months of investigations. The Supreme People's...

Greater China

Cosco hit by Coastal Oil liquidation

January 7th, 20190 China Cosco Shipping has denied alleged debt claims from several banks relating to its marine fuel trading subsidiary Sinfeng Marine Services. According to Cosco,...

Page 2 of 351 123 4 ...

Splash Dash

Gard issues warning on scrubber ban proliferation
Gard P&I has published an eye-opening map (see below) of places around the world it believes... Jan 18th, 2019 inEnvironment
Manila broadens discussions with overseas firms to acquire bust Hanjin Subic
Authorities in the Philippines are determined to give Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction... Jan 18th, 2019 inShipyards
Shipping’s black box gets blockchain upgrade
The voyage data recorder (VDR) – shipping’s black box – could become a blockchain box with... Jan 18th, 2019 inTech
Nick Elliott: Shipping thriller trilogy
In need of some weekend reading? Well then, marine claims investigator Angus McKinnon is back in... Jan 18th, 2019 inMaritime CEO
Maersk starts random box checks in latest bid to stamp out scourge of misdeclared cargoes
In a bid to stamp out misdeclared cargoes, Maersk has started carrying out random container checks... Jan 17th, 2019 inContainers

Algoma acquires Oldendorff bulker trio in CSL pool

North’s post-Brexit Irish subsidiary up and running

Saipem awarded $1.3bn worth of offshore contracts by Saudi Armanco

CMA CGM bids adieu to the MacAndrews brand

Algoma acquires Oldendorff bulker trio in CSL pool

Seacor Marine acquires three more PSVs from Cosco

Ocean Infinity awarded Petrobras survey work

Dole books reefer boxship pair at CSSC Chengxi

Saipem awarded $1.3bn worth of offshore contracts by Saudi Armanco

ADNOC acquires boxship from Celsius Shipping

Oman Shipping Company in for four DSME VLCCs

ZIM readies the end of paper bills of ladings

Manila broadens discussions with overseas firms to acquire bust Hanjin Subic

Shipping’s black box gets blockchain upgrade

BW completes Hafnia merger

Oshima markets rare 2019 bulker resale

Nord/LB files court case against Brightoil

Bureau Veritas reveals Donche-Gay’s successor

Shanghai Bestway chairman fails to sell his shares again

Last Union Rich Shipping vessel sold at auction

Cosco seeks strategic investors for leasing unit