October 2010
On 24 October, a strong cold front from the north and Typhoon Megi from the south caused the first severe weather of the autumn in the Changshu section of the Yangtze Mouth....
On 26 October China increased retail petrol and diesel prices by Rmb230 and Rmb220 per tonne, respectively, said the National Development and Reform Commission on its website....
Chongqing’s GDP grew 17.1 per cent in the first nine months of 2010 to Rmb563.17bn, according to the municipality’s statistics bureau....
International express delivery company FedEx has called on the Chinese government to speed up Customs procedures to help improve supply chain competitiveness, reported IFW....
The first phase of Chengdu’s Rmb8bn No.1 metro line has started operation. The 18.5km-long line has 17 stops and runs in a north south direction through the centre of the city....
The South Korean Consulate General in Wuhan opened on 25 October, its eighth consulate in China and its first located in the centre of the country....
Changhe Suzuki, the world’s leading fibreglass producer Jushi Group, solar energy competent specialist Sornid Hi-Tech and cellulose manufacturer Sateri International are just some of the companies that will be visited d...
GD Midea Holdings, China’s leading household appliance producer, has started building a Rmb1bn kitchenware plant in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone....
Premier Wen Jiabao visited Wuhan Yangluo terminal on 22 October....
On the afternoon of 16 October, a fault in the Zhenjiang section of the Shanghai-Nanjing express railway caused delays to more than 10 train services and the cancellation of four Shanghai-bound services....
On 26 October high-speed trains began travelling between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province....
Container throughput at Shanghai port increased 14.3 per cent year-on-year in September to 2.54m TEU, according to the Shanghai Custom Inspection Department....
At 11pm on 24 October, Nantong Waterway Rescue Centre received a fax from a shipping agent saying that a Korean crew member on board one of its vessels suffered a stroke and needed emergency treatment....
No-frills carrier The Containership Company (TCC) has decided to expand its current services from China to Los Angeles to include a call at Qingdao, in addition to Ningbo and Taicang....
The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir rose to its maximum level of 175 metres on 26 October, raising electricity output to capacity at the world’s largest hydropower plant for the first time, said Cao Guangjing...
Carmaker Volvo will probably establish a plant in Chengdu, Sichuan province, according to company executives quoted by Xinhua....
Caterpillar is to produce mini hydraulic excavator models at a new facility in Wujiang, a city located to the south of Suzhou in southern Jiangsu province....
Texas Instruments has established its first manufacturing plant in Chengdu, Sichuan province, according to China Knowledge....
China has begun research and development on a new ‘super-speed’ railway technology, an official with the Ministry of Railways was quoted as saying by Xinhua....
Construction started on 18 October on the biggest flyover in China’s interior. Located in Chongqing’s Liangjiang (Two Rivers) New Zone, the Rmb390m Yuzui flyover is scheduled to be completed by end of next year....
Dow Coating Materials plans to invest US$25m to expand capacity in the China market by the end of 2011, especially in second- and third-tier cities, said the company’s Asia-Pacific general manager Bruce Hoechner....
Jiangsu’s foreign trade value increased 42 per cent year-on-year to US$338.37bn in the first three quarters of 2010, according to the provincial Customs office....
Air traffic in China continued to soar in September, according to figures released by two of the country’s largest carriers....
Travellers on a Nanjing-Shanghai high-speed train experienced a delay of nearly two hours on 17 October, according to Shanghaiist.com....
Maritime safety authorities have recently mobilised extra manpower to escort vessels that carry cotton pickers across the Jingzhou stretch of the Yangtze....
The Chongqing-based auto and motorcycle manufacturer Lifan Industry Group has won approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to list in Shanghai, reported Bloomberg....
China-based Orient International Logistics has officially opened a logistics centre in Shanghai’s Yangshan deepwater terminal following a four-month trial period....
China’s railways transported 2.72bn tons of cargo in the first nine months of this year, up 12.1 per cent year-on-year....
Burma plans to construct a railway that will link the deep-sea port of Kyaukphyu with Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, according to Weekly Eleven News.
The line is targeted to be completed in 2015, when it will be expe...
Wuhan Waterway Bureau announced on 14 October that vessels sailing downstream now need to pass under the No.7 arch of the Wuhan Yangtze Bridge rather than the No.6 arch so as to make way for engineering work on the city&rsquo...
Yangtze Maritime Safety Authorities have published for the first time a list of 33 safe locations in the Three Gorges Reservoir for vessels in distress....
Output from China’s shipbuilding industry totalled Rmb424.8bn in the first eight months of 2010, up 23.4 percent year-on-year....
Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifang has officially declared the beginning of phase two construction of Guoyuan terminal, the largest intermodal container terminal in China’s interior....
The average area of glaciers in western China might shrink by 27 per cent by 2050 because of global warming, according to a report released at the recent UN climate talks in Tianjin....
The provincial government of Jiangxi has decided to proceed with its ambitious plan to withdraw old vessels, starting from October....
Johnson Controls, the world’s largest supplier of automotive batteries, is to invest US$118m to build a plant in Chongqing, its third in China....
Wuhan-based Qingshan Shipyard, part of Sinotrans Yangtze Shipping Group, has finished building the 57,000 dwt ‘Guangzhou Development 4’, the largest dry bulk carrier ever built in a Yangtze yard....
Statistics from Nantong Maritime Safety Authorities (MSA) show that the amount of dangerous cargo handled by the city’s port during the first three-quarters of 2010 exceeded the total for the whole of last year....
The Yichang-Wanzhou railway in southwest China is expected to be open to traffic in mid-to-late November, said a local government website....
Chongqing Iron & Steel produced 324,300 tons of steel in September, 49 per cent more than in the same month in 2009....
Pfizer has officially opened a global research and development centre for radiation biology and drug development in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province....
Fixed assets investment in Chongqing between January and August 2010 increased 30 per cent year-on-year to Rmb365.58bn, Chongqing Statistics Bureau announced....
A collision between an intercity bus and a cement truck on a foggy highway outside Nanjing in Jiangsu province killed at least 17 people, according to state media....
A Rmb2.51bn highway connecting China and Mongolia is expected to be built jointly by the two countries, Xinhua reported.
Some 245km long, the new road will run from the southwest of Mongolia to Ganqimaodu, a border town in...
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office has confirmed that the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China has approved up to 36 additional direct cross-Strait frequencies, to be operated by Taiwan airlines....
Nantong in Jiangsu province has become one of the 25 cities chosen to pilot new energy-powered vehicles. This is part of an ambitious plan by the central government to promote new energy fuel across China....
Odfjell, which specialises in the transportation and storage of bulk liquid chemicals, has cancelled three out of six chemical tankers it had ordered from Chongqing Chuandong Shipbuilding Industry at the beginning of 2008....
Construction of Chongqing airport’s second runway has been completed, according to a municipal government website....
Steel demand growth in China is set to slow, according to a report published by the World Steel Association....
Taicang is to invest Rmb150m in an expansion project that will increase the port’s annual timber-handling capacity to 4.5m cubic metres, said Mr Li Rurong, general manager of Taicang International Containers Terminals....
Wärtsilä, the Finland-based manufacturer of diesel and gas engines for use in powering ships and electricity generation, has signed an agreement with Zhenjiang CME to invest €12m in a new propeller-manufacturin...
China expects to have invested a total of Rmb140.5bn in its south-to-north water diversion project between 2006 and 2010, the country’s water diversion authority has announced....
Officials from Wuhu Maritime Safety Authority are working with the local fishery department to warn local farmers and fishermen against catching crabs in or near the Yangtze shipping lane....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that throughput of general cargo on the Yangtze trunkline increased by 15.2 per cent year-on-year in September to 120m tons, while container throughput rose nearly 20 per...
Yangtze Maritime Safety Authorities have begun a month-long inspection programme of terminals and vessels....