June 2010
The final construction phase has begun on the Chongqing-Hunan expressway, with the road expected to open in October, said Chongqing Expressway.
The expressway will employ traffic signs powered by solar energy, designed to...
China Shipping Container Lines, China’s second-largest container carrier, said it will impose additional surcharges on transpacific shipping from 1 July due to a global shortage of containers....
DHL’s recently established domestic express delivery subsidiary in China is likely to grow organically rather than through acquisition, a senior executive told IFW....
Dongfeng Motor Co has started to build an engine plant in Wuhan, capital Hubei province, with production due to begin in the second half of 2011....
The Yangtze Maritime Authorities issued a high alert on 29 June warning that more than 1,000 drums were floating downstream towards Jiujiang in Jiangxi province....
China Shipping-Jumbo Heavy Lift, a joint venture between Jumbo Shipping and China Shipping, has opened a representative office in Beijing, according to Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International.
The company, which...
The Hilton Hotel in Chongqing was cleared to reopen on 29 June after its operations were suspended nine days earlier for alleged involvement in prostitution and gang-related activities, local police said....
The Yangtze Marine Safety Authorities have announced a night sailing ban on vessels of 300 dwt and below in the Huangshi section of the Yangtze River, about 150km downstream of Wuhan....
Train ticket prices on the new Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed line have been set at Rmb146 for standard class and Rmb233 for first-class travel, according to shanghaiist.com....
Wuhan Iron and Steel has signed an initial non-binding agreement for US$800m with Australian miner Riversdale Mining to develop a coking coal project in the southeast African country of Mozambique....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that general cargo volumes continued their upward trend in June, rising 34.5 per cent year-on-year to 128m tons....
Shuifu port, the furthest upstream port on the Yangtze trunk line, restarted operation on 25 June after three years of construction work....
The proposed merger of the cargo operations of Air China and Cathay Pacific has been given the green light by the European Commission to fly in Europe’s air space....
Statistics from Changshu Inspection and Quarantine Bureau show that for the first five months of the year, a total of 5,120 tons of vessel steel plates were exported via Changshu, a Yangtze port city in Jiangsu province....
About 196 drainage outlets in the downtown Chongqing and Three Gorges Reservoir areas are to be rerouted this year to flow into sewage treatment plants....
DHL has announced the launch of a direct less than container load (LCL) weekly service from Shanghai to Keelung in Taiwan....
Heavy rain across much of southern China over the last week has killed at least 199 people and left 123 missing.
Economic losses currently stand at around Rmb42.12bn, with more than 1.6m hectares of farmland flooded and ab...
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed passenger railway will run up to 65 train services each way from the current daily total of 33 from 1 July, reported the Wuhan-based Yangtze Daily....
The Hilton Chongqing has been closed indefinitely by the police....
The provincial government of Xinjiang autonomous region signed an agreement with the Ministry of Railways on 10 June to speed up construction of the region’s rail network....
The Ministry of Railways has urged local railway authorities to prioritise coal transport to alleviate China’s electricity shortage in the lead-up to the peak electricity-consumption period.
Xinhua reported the minis...
The express delivery company TNT is examining the feasibility of cross-border trucking services between India and China, reported IFW....
The administration committee of Wuhan Bund announced on 22 June that trees along the river banks in Hankou, Hanyang and Hanjiang districts are now open to the public for adoption....
A total of 30.46m young fish were released into the Yangtze River in Jiangyin on 12 June in a bid to increase fish stocks....
France-based Accor is to open two Novotel hotels in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province....
Carlsberg, the world’s fourth-largest brewer, has signed a deal to increase its stake in Chongqing Brewery by 12.25 per cent for US$379m.
The purchase of the shares from Chongqing’s municipal government will in...
Germany’s Lufthansa Cargo has started its first air route between Europe and northern China....
Construction of a coal port started on 12 June in Jinzhou, a city in northeast China’s Liaoning province. The port is designed to boost the transport of coal from Inner Mongolia autonomous region to southern China....
Passenger flights have been inaugurated between Songshan airport in Taipei and Hongqiao in Shanghai....
Container throughput at China’s ports reached a record monthly high of 12.4m TEU in May, up 21.9 per cent year-on year, according to Alphaliner, the Paris-based container shipping consultancy....
DB Schenker, the transport and logistics arm of Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, has launched four new weekly less-than-container-load services from Guangzhou in Guangdong province....
According to Shanghai International Port Group figures reported by the Yangtze River Administration, Shanghai recorded a throughput of 2.56m TEU in May, up 22.6 per cent over the same period last year....
Three people died and two were injured when rocks falling from a mountain hit a car and a truck on 12 June in Chongqing municipality, the local government said.
The accident happened in Wulong county on State Highway 319...
Senior officials in charge of preventing land disasters in the Three Gorges area announced on 15 June that they would start large-scale land inspection before the onset of the flood season.
The length of both river banks i...
Wuhan Shan De Xin Mining Investment said that it had won the right to explore a major chrome mine in the Philippines, after four years of investigating sites in South Africa, Turkey, India and the Philippines, according to a...
According to a recent story published by Chongqing Evening News, Chongqing government will spend Rmb177bn this year on 650 renovation projects to improve the appearance of the downtown area, an increase of Rmb40bn over last y...
Germany-based logistics provider Logwin is upgrading and expanding its facilities in Shanghai as demand grows in China for value-added logistics services in the fashion retail sector, reported CargoNews Asia.
The company h...
Statistics from the Nantong MSA show that 2,319 international vessels arrived and departed Nantong port in the first five months of 2010....
Air freight prices out of Shanghai in April jumped 18.4 per cent over the previous month to their highest level so far in 2010, according to an index compiled by Drewry Shipping Consultants....
Lloyd’s List reported that Shanghai International Port Group has formed a domestic shipping subsidiary with total assets of around Rmb10bn....
The port of Taicang, located close to Shanghai in Jiangsu province, handled 192,700 TEU in April....
The International Air Transport Association’s e-freight standard became operational in China when Tianjin Binhai International Airport became the first airport to implement the international e-freight standard....
Truckers in south China who are seeking higher earnings reportedly blocked a main road leading to terminals in western Shenzhen on 3 June, according to Journal of Commerce....
Main work on the Tangxihe Bridge in Chongqing was completed on 7 June, according to the municipal government....
Chongqing-based Changan Ford Mazda Automobile has started a recall of 236,643 Focus cars because of a problem that causes vehicles to stall, said China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Qua...
Chinese ports recorded a container throughput of 11.08m TEU in April, up 23.2 per cent year-on-year, according to Ministry of Transport statistics quoted by Xinhua....
A Ministry of Transport task force for the vessel standardisation programme convened for the first time on 27 May, vowing to build a fleet of standardised vessels for rivers within 10 years....
Nanjing government signed an agreement on 26 May to buy China Railway Construction Co’s 80 per cent holding of the city’s road tunnel under the Yangtze River....
PetroChina said it plans to complete construction of China’s largest liquefied natural gas wharf in Dalian, Liaoning province, by the end of 2010....
Japan’s Isuzu is to establish a global sourcing centre in Chongqing and enlarge production capacity at its joint venture with Qingling Automobile to 120,000 units by 2012 from 40,000 at present, according to a municipal...
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that cargo throughput on the trunk line rose 28.3 per cent year-on-year to 121m tons in May 2010, an increase of 5.8 per cent over the previous month....
The monthly Yangtze Dry Bulk Index edged up 0.99 per cent in May to 814.51. Due to lower prices of steel, demand for iron ore was suppressed, resulting in a continued downward trend in the commodity’s shipping price....