Ferry services on the Qiongzhou Strait between Guangdong and Hainan provinces in south China have resumed since Wednesday afternoon as the Typhoon Son-Tinh waned, local authorities said. Many stranded passengers and vehicles were seen waiti

Shanghai construction steel rebar prices edged higher on July 18, reversing a two-day losing streak, as pollution control measures in Chinas top steelmaking city raised concerns over supplies. The most-active rebar on the Shanghai Futures E

China does not seek a trade surplus and is willing to import more goods from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The cooperation between China and ASEAN is expected to be further deepened th

An Aframax tanker is scheduled to deliver the largest shipment of crude oil from Vancouver to China since January 2015 later this month, Thomson Reuters trade flow data show. For years, Canadian officials have pushed for an escalation in cr

1.TAIWAN's Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp says it has secured charter agreements with Shoei Kisen Kaisha for five 11,000-TEUers and another five 12,000-TEUers from Costamare. 2.An oil and gas field in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur

The Republic of Liberia has responded to the needs of shipowners and the ship financing and legal community by amending Liberian maritime law to allow lease financing structures to be recorded as mortgages. As a result, Liberia is the only

China has taken measures to diversify its soybean import channels so as to reduce the possible effects of trade tensions. Chinas soybean import volume from Brazil has increased in recent months, setting a record high in May and jumping over

Last year, containers transported at all ports in China could have spanned the equator 35 times. According to a report released by the Ministry of Transport, Chinese ports last year saw 185 million passengers, 14 billion metric tons of carg

TAIWANs Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp says it has secured charter agreements with Shoei Kisen Kaisha for five 11,000-TEUers and another five 12,000-TEUers from Costamare. The vessels are to be delivered from the second quarter 2020 throug

Shanghai customs officials listed 202 discredited companies, and downgraded five companies credit ratings based on information shared by other government organs since the country adopted credit-based customs clearance measures in May. Custo

The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mongolian International and National Arbitration Center, in June this year, it has emerged. The signing of the MOU took place in With the Mon

1.Chinese oceanographic research ship Xiangyanghong-03 departed Saturday for the country's 50th ocean research expedition in the western and eastern Pacific Ocean. 2.COSCO Shipping plans to sell its Long Beach container terminal through

Chinas Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Monday that it has filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding the United States proposal to slap additional tariffs on 200 billion dollars worth of China goods. China said

During his trip to China (10-11 July) IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim During visited the Dalian Maritime University where he marked the start of the Masters degree programme on Maritime Safety and Environmental Management a joint programme

On 16 July, the European Union has signed a unique ocean partnership agreement with China. Two of the worlds largest ocean economies will work together to improve the international governance of the oceans in all its aspects, including by c