October 2009
Figures from Chongqing Statistics Bureau showed that the municipality’s GDP reached nearly Rmb380bn during the first three quarters of 2009, up 13.4 per cent over the same period last year....
Coca-Cola has opened a new bottling plant in Wuhan’s East Lake District. It is the soft drinks giant’s 39th bottling plant in China, and the third to open in 2009....
The Yangtze Waterway Bureau has finished compiling digital maps of the entire Yangtze River, according to the director of its waterway division Wan Dabing. Work started in 2008 on the upper and lower reaches....
Hong Kong International Airport recorded the world’s largest cargo throughput in 2008 with a total of 3.63m tons....
China’s largest dry bulk carrier capable of sailing on both river and sea has been built by Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing....
On 26 October, heavy fog enveloped the Yangtze lower reaches, with visibility reduced to just 100-200 metres in places. More than 2,500 vessels were stranded in the Nanjing and Zhenjiang areas....
Shanghai Shipping Exchange has launched a new Shanghai (Export) Container Freight Index (SCFI), Xinhua reported....
The Three Gorges Dam started releasing water earlier than scheduled to combat a worsening drought in the Yangtze....
Wuhan Iron and Steel Company, the listed arm of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp, posted a 76 per cent decline in net profit in the third quarter of this year due to falling sales....
China has begun to resettle 330,000 people to make way for construction of a water transportation project that will divert water from the Yangtze River to Beijing, according to official media.
People from Henan and Hubei p...
Statistics from Chongqing municipal government revealed a 52 per cent year-on-year increase to Rmb76.2bn in utilised domestic investment in the first three-quarters of 2009....
The Yangtze Waterway Bureau organised a successful demonstration on 14 October of the digital mapping of Wuhan port....
The Ministry of Transport has recently issued a circular that allows domestic shipping companies to purchase ‘abandoned’ vessels (except passenger cruises) for use on domestic routes, after the new capacity is reg...
FedEx Express has announced an improvement to its inbound international express service in China that will involve parcels from around the world being delivered in Shanghai by noon, six hours earlier than the previous commitm...
A major maintenance project began on 15 October on the No.3 shiplock of Gezhouba Dam, 38km downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. Such work happens once every six years....
Construction of the Yunnan-Asean International Cold Chain Logistics Centre is to begin next month in the Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming, reported Logistics Week....
Cofco, the major shareholder of dairy company Mengniu, has announced that production has begun at Mengniu’s manufacturing base in Meishan, Sichuan province....
The Ministry of Railways will start issuing the second lot of China Railway Construction Bonds worth a total of Rmb20bn on 22-23 October....
The world’s largest tunnel-bridge structure, linking Shanghai with two of its major islands, will be open to traffic at the end of this month, reported China Daily.
The Yangtze River Tunnel-Bridge and connecting expr...
Construction of the Chongqing section of the Lanzhou-Chongqing railway started on 17 October....
On 16 October, drilling work began in Wuhan, Hubei province, on China’s first metro tunnel under the Yangtze River, according to local officials....
Carrefour, the France-based retailer, will spend more than Rmb100m on buying fruit and vegetables in Chongqing next year, according to Eric Legros, chief executive of the company’s China operation....
Damco, formerly known as Maersk Logistics, has recently decided to set up an operation in Chengdu rather than Chongqing....
SIPG Jiujiang port recorded a September throughput of 10,034 teu, its largest-ever single month total. For the first nine months of 2009, container throughput totalled 65,000 teu, up 108 per cent year-on-year....
China’s railways carried 54.5m passengers over the busy National Day holiday period between 1-7 October, according to the Ministry of Railway....
The operators of the main international airports in Shanghai and Hong Kong are to form a joint venture to manage Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, reported China Daily....
Sichuan plans to spend Rmb82.5bn on 137 projects in the natural gas, chemicals and petrochemicals sectors, said Zhang Yushan, deputy director of the province’s Economic Commission.
In 2008, Sichuan’s sales reve...
China plans to invest Rmb469bn in infrastructure projects to boost the development of the country’s western regions in 2009, said the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)....
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is to increase the number of its sailings on the Japan-South Korea-China RoRo service to three a month....
The Yangtze River Administration and the Salvation Bureau, both under the Ministry of Transport, signed an agreement on 12 October to set up an emergency salvation system....
Transport authorities in Jiangsu have announced a plan to rename all its national and provincial expressways as part of a nationwide effort to standardise the names of all expressways....
China Shipping Container Lines has announced peak season surcharges and rate increases on most of its major trade lanes, according to Exim News Service.
A peak season surcharge for shipments on Asia-European/Mediterranean...
Guiyang, capital of southwest Guizhou province, started the construction of an urban railway network on 29 September, reported China Daily.
The Rmb18.9bn network will connect nine logistic centres around the city....
Construction has begun in northern Shanxi province on China’s first railway involving private funds.
The railway is co-funded by the Broad Union Investment Management Group, Yufeng Railway Construction Investment and t...
The Taiwan-headquartered Taibo Group is to set up the world’s largest soda plant in Huaian, in the north of Jiangsu province. Construction started on 29 September....
On 29 September an inaugural container service was completed on the direct route between the ports of Taicang in Jiangsu province and Incheon in South Korea. The vessel Linyuan has a 614 teu capacity....
China’s railways carried a record of 6.93m people on National Day on 1 October, according to the Ministry of Railways....