August 2009
Car sales in China’s western and central regions increased 33 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2009, according to a report from the global market research firm, Ipsos....
The Yangtze Police Yueyang branch confirmed last week that a major fire on 18 July at the private terminal of Yueyang Chemical Plant was caused by the mishandling of the highly flammable solvent cyclohexane....
Chongqing Iron & Steel Group (Chong Gang) said that a new project to produce 4100mm steel plates will start operation in September and its first phase in Chong Gang New Area would reach an annual capacity of 6.5m tons by...
DHL, the global express transportation company, has launched a cross-border trucking service linking major Chinese cities with destinations in Vietnam....
GE Drivetrain Technologies, part of the giant US-based multinational GE, has formed a joint venture with Chongqing XinXing Fengneng Investment to produce large diameter gears for the wind turbine industry....
A new high-speed train that will operate between Chongqing and Chengdu will be delivered later this month, according to a local government department....
Honda Motor has started to manufacture the Spirior sports sedan at the Dongfeng Honda Automobile joint venture in Wuhan, Asia Pulse reported....
Two major Yangtze ports in Anhui province, Maanshan and Chizhou, are to be opened to foreign vessels, according to Hefei Customs....
Macquarie, the Australian bank that specialises in infrastructure investment, and financial services firm China Everbright are to form two funds that will seek to raise a total of US$1.5bn for infrastructure projects.
Both...
A six-lane road tunnel under the Yangtze River in Nanjing, designed to ease congestion in the city, is expected to open for traffic in June next year, according to Xinhua....
Malaysian airline AirAsia X is to launch services between Kuala Lumpur and Chengdu from 22 October....
The amount of freight carried by China’s railways rose 0.3 per cent year-on-year in July, the first monthly increase in 2009, according to Ministry of Railways figures.
Cargo transportation volume stood at 1.88bn ton...
The State Administration of Taxation has issued a circular to clarify definitions contained in a previous circular regarding tax incentives for projects in China’s western regions, including Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou...
Shanghai’s Urban Environmental Protection Committee is deliberating on a draft law that could force shipping companies to take out insurance against pollution spills, reported China Daily....
The numbers 7, 9 and 11 lines of the Shanghai underground railway system will run into pilot operation by the end of this year, according to the local transport authorities....
More than 200 vessels with an engine size of less than 270 kW were stranded in waters between the Three Gorges Dam and the Gezhouba Dam due to the torrents created by the largest flood during the current rainy season.
The...
An important logistics centre has been established along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the Tibetan township of Nagqu.
Covering Lhasa, Qamdo, Ali and northern Xigaze, the centre provides services on freight transportation, s...
PetroChina has put an 11,000 cubic metre oil products tank into operation in Chongqing. The municipality has suffered from tight oil product supplies for several years due to poor transportation links....
Air services between Chongqing and Seoul will resume on 17 September with two flights a week, according to Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission.
Services on the route began in 2000 but were suspended f...
Carrefour is expected to open a new store in Hefei, Anhui province before the Spring Festival in 2010.
The France-based retailer will take out a 20-year lease on a 23,000 sq metre site owned by Hefei New Civil and Cultural...
Trade volume between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong dropped 23.6 per cent year-on-year to US$88.68bn during the first seven months of 2009, according to the Ministry of Commerce....
Air China has signed a strategic co-operation framework agreement with Sinotrans Shipping, one of China’s largest shipping companies....
Shanghai has obtained approval from the State Council to build a bonded area in Shanghai Pudong Airport, reported Xinhua.
It will be the first bonded area at an airport in mainland China and will cover an area of some 4 sq...
The city of Wuxi, located on one of the Yangtze’s major tributaries, Taihu Lake, is building a third power plant that generates electricity through burning household waste, according to the local media....
Chongqing’s export value rose by 9.5 per cent in July to US$61.64m compared with the previous month, while imports rose by 32 per cent to US$15.4m. The major markets are the US, Hong Kong and Italy....
Wuhu port, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, announced on 18 August that it plans to sell Rmb170m-worth of A Shares to Huainan Coal Mine, the largest coal producer in Anhui province....
August floods have sent an unprecedented quantity of floating waste such as broken branches and weeds down the Three Gorges Reservoir....
Mr Tang Guanjun, Director of the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport, told the Yangtze Shippers Association that undeclared dangerous goods on vessels will be severely punished once discovered....
A serious accident occurred on the evening of 10 August when 62 containers from the Chongqing barge 'Hanglong 518’ fell into the lower waters of The Three Gorges Reservoir in Yichang....
Marine Safety Authorities in Nanjing announced on 19 August that they will set up inspection points along the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River to check the weight of passing vessels....
Cargo throughput at China’s leading ports stood at 500m tons in July, a year-on-year growth rate of 12.9 per cent according to the Ministry of Transport....
Chongqing will shut down at least 50 hazardous chemicals enterprises in the next three years according to a local government website....
Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has become the latest yard to enter the ship demolition market....
Nanjing port signed an agreement with Huaneng Power at the end of July to increase its stake in their joint venture, Nanjing Port Tianchen....
Statistics from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange show an upturn in outbound container shipping business....
China’s total railway freight volume stood at 273.55m tons in June 2009, reported People’s Daily, virtually unchanged on the same month last year....
The five-step shiplocks of the Three Gorges Dam were temporarily closed on 3 August in preparation for the biggest flood crest of the summer....
The US-based Preferred Freezer Services has broken ground on a refrigerated warehouse in Shanghai’s Lingang Logistics Park.
After construction, the 26,000 sq metre facility will be the largest and most advanced singl...
The director of Shanghai Maritime Safety Authority said in an interview on 31 July that the waterway control centre and emergency response centres for the Shanghai Expo 2010 had started operation....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that the Yangtze dry bulk index stood at 797.4 at the end of July, 0.6 per cent down on end-June....