February 4th, 20200Shipowners are having to reacquaint themselves with the disruptive intricacies of force majeures on their daily operations in the wake of the coronavirus. The...
February 4th, 20200There has been ongoing commentary that China’s BRI is about to collapse as it was ill conceived and planned. After predictions of the BRI collapse in 2018 failing to...
February 3rd, 20200On a brutal morning at the markets, almost $370bn in market capitalisation was wiped off the benchmark Shanghai Composite index in the first day’s trading since the...
February 3rd, 20200The US government has lifted sanctions against a tanker unit of Cosco, China's state-run shipping conglomerate, partially reversing its punishment on the company for...
January 31st, 20200Agents and brokers are reporting operations are slowing down at Chinese ports and shipyards as the coronavirus takes its toll and the Lunar New Year holidays are...
January 31st, 20200Likely with rising fuel prices in mind, China Steel Express, the shipping arm of Taiwan’s largest steel producer, is readying a cape duo for sale. The sale will be its...
January 29th, 20200Advice is coming in from across the world on preparation crew ought to be taking in the wake of the rapidly spreading coronavirus from China. Global shipping body the...
January 29th, 20201Florian Frese from Container xChange warns that empty containers are piling up in Shanghai. Everyone is talking about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Thousands of...
January 27th, 20200As the official numbers of Wuhan coronavirus infections in China rise and the virus starts to spread globally, shipping is being urged to prepare on several...
January 24th, 20200Seafarers who have called in China in recent weeks and are seeking shore leave at ports across much of Asia are coming in for increased scrutiny as the world takes...
January 23rd, 20200BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse have signed up to the Poseidon Principles, bringing the total number of financial institutions aligned to the green lending principles to...
January 23rd, 20200New Dayang Shipbuilding has signed shipbuilding contracts with domestic shipping operators Taizhou Mingxing Shipping and Suzhou Xinxin shipping for the construction of...
January 22nd, 20200Chinese private energy company Brightoil Petroleum has entered into a major debt restructuring deal with eight Chinese banks. The eight banks are led by ICBC, and...
January 22nd, 20200Ningbo Port has announced a plan to raise RMB11.2bn ($1.62bn) through the issuing of new shares to its controlling shareholder Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group and new...
January 21st, 20200Cheng Wen-Lon, the chairman of Taiwanese flagship shipbuilder CSBC Corporation, has sent an application to controlling shareholder the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to...
January 21st, 20200China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES), the energy shipping unit of China Merchants Group, has announced a plan to acquire the dry bulk and LNG shipping assets from its...
January 21st, 20200Shanghai Xiangfa Dangerous Cargo Shipping & Stoarge Company is looking for new investors to restructure the company after it was declared bankrupt by a court in...
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