Greater China
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Seaspan orders five 12,200 teu boxships backed by 18-year charters
Seaspan Corporation has sealed an order to build five 12,200 teu containerships backed by 18-year charters worth a total of…
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Maersk Tankers sells 14 MRs for $422m
Maersk Tankers has sold 14 product tankers to CDB Leasing for $422m, the Chinese bank revealed in a release to…
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Pacific Basin joins Wah Kwong in carbon credit scheme
Listed dry bulk company Pacific Basin has followed another Hong Kong line in pursuing a local carbon credit scheme. Pacific…
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Beijing loosens Australian coal blockade
A few Australian coal shipments are finally making it onto Chinese soil after months of political impasse between the two…
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Sime Darby exits China ports scene
Diverse Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby is exiting the port business in China, selling its stakes in three river ports in…
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Shipmanagement’s future post-Covid
How the shipmanagement industry is changing during and post-Covid dominated much of the discussion at Capital Link’s Hong Kong Maritime…
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Pacific Basin splashes $67m on Scorpio Bulkers ultramax quartet
Hong Kong shipowner Pacific Basin has acquired four ultramax bulkers from Monaco’s Scorpio Bulkers, who continue to sell bulkers at…
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CSSC to develop offshore wind yard in Guangxi
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is going to construct a new manufacturing base in Qinzhou, Guangxi province, in order to…
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Antong Holdings secures $688m for restructuring
Financially troubled Chinese containership operator Antong Holdings has secured restructuring funds of RMB4.527bn ($688m) from investors. Fujian Zhaohang Logistics Management,…
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Greywing wins this year’s Captain’s Table pitch competition
Crew travel software specialist Greywing was crowned the winner of this year’s Captain’s Table, one of shipping’s best known pitch…
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China labels Australian coal as poor quality, 66 bulk carriers and more than 1,000 seafarers left stranded
China has labelled Australian coal as poor quality as hundreds of seafarers languish on stranded bulk carriers off the Chinese…
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Watch the finals of the Captain’s Table live
The finals of the Captain’s Table – one of shipping’s preeminent pitch competitions – take place today at 4pm Hong…
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Cape queues grow across China
Capes are beginning to snarl up across Chinese anchorages again. Braemar ACM is reporting capesize queues have begun to rise,…
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Covid puts a freeze on reefer calls to Tianjin
All available reefer plugs are taken at Tianjin’s Xingang port, one of the main entry points for frozen food into…
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Rongsheng Holding forms strategic partnership with Cosco
Chinese private petrochemical group Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding has signed a framework agreement with state-run shipping conglomerate Cosco Shipping Group to…
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Kanway Line orders up to four feeder boxships at Huangpu Wenchong
Kanway Line has placed an order at CSSC-affiliated Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding for the construction of up to four 1,900 teu…
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Beihai Shipping signs order for shuttle tanker pair with DSIC
Shanghai-based Beihai Shipping has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC) for the construction of two 155,000…
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Chinese reefer delays escalate as fears grow of Covid relapses from frozen food imports
Fearing Covid strains could enter the country on frozen food imports, China is upping its checks on reefer shipments, leading…
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China urged to let stranded crew leave
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is urging the governments of China, India and Australia to collaborate and urgently end…
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‘Chinese authorities say there needs to be a rates ceiling’: Saadé
Rodolphe Saadé, chairman of CMA CGM, the world’s fourth largest containerline, has discussed the pressure liners are coming under from…
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