December 2010
Yangtze Maritime Safety Authorities recently issued its 2010 Trustworthy Award to 23 vessels, which allows them to enjoy preferential treatment in different areas including simplified reporting procedures and priority for dep...
The Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport has announced the timetable for completing its vessel standardisation programme....
The Yangtze River Administration has activated an Emergency Response Code at the Three Gorges Dam in an attempt to deal with a growing backlog of vessels waiting to pass the shiplocks....
Container throughput at China’s coastal ports increased 21 per cent year-on-year in November 2010 to 11.82m TEU, reported China Knowledge....
According to Shanghai Shipping Exchange, a severe lack of specialist maritime lawyers is fast becoming a bottleneck for Shanghai’s ambition to become East Asia’s international shipping centre....
Air cargo services have begun for the first time between Pakistan and China, linking Islamabad with Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region....
China Eastern Airlines, the country’s third-largest carrier, recorded a 31.5 per cent increase in its cargo and mail throughput in November 2010 to 124,900 tons....
Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway company, and China’s Ministry of Railways have signed an MOU to cooperate more closely in rail freight transport and in expanding China’s railway infrastructure....
Ground has been broken in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, for what will become the world’s third tallest building....
Chongqing Foreign Trade Commission reported a 54 per cent rise in the municipality’s foreign trade in the first 11 months of 2010 to US$10.5bn....
Taiwan’s largest private enterprise, Formosa Plastics, plans to manufacture auto batteries in Chongqing, according to the municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that throughput of general cargo passing the Three Gorges shiplocks had reached 71.03m tons in the first 11 months of 2010, up by 30 per cent year-on-year....
Wuhu Maritime Safety Authorities established a dangerous cargo emergency response training centre at Wuhu Ronghui Chemical Company on 30 November....
Jiangyin Maritime Safety Administration officials in Jiangsu province said on 6 December that nearly 100 vessels including more than 20 ocean liners were forced to anchor due to strong winds in the Jiangyin section of the Yan...
A direct container service between Nanjing and Ulsan, South Korea was opened on 1 December....
Logwin, the Germany-based logistics company, has opened a 2,000 sq metre logistics centre in Shanghai, according to IFW....
Track-laying has begun in the Xuchang, Henan province, section of the Shijiazhuang-Wuhan high-speed railway....
The Dazhou-Wanzhou railway in southwestern China is now operational as an electrified line. For the past eight years, passenger and cargo trains on the 158km line were drawn by diesel locomotives....
China’s Ministry of Railways has announced that it is working with Bank of China to launch a pre-paid swipe card system for users of the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway service....
Chongqing Jiangbei airport’s second runway will open following a final inspection on 13-14 December. Work on the 3.6km-long runway, which runs parallel to the first runway, began in August 2008....
GlaxoSmithKline has signed an agreement to acquire Nanjing MeiRui Pharma for US$70m, reported Pharmaceutical Business Review. MeiRui is a Chinese pharmaceutical business specialising in urology and allergy products....
The France-based chemicals company Rhodia has acquired amines manufacturer Feixiang Chemicals in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, for US$489m....
US-based Sensata Technologies is to invest an additional US$30m to expand production capacity at its wholly-owned plant in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District in Jiangsu province.
The company makes sensors and controls tha...
Tsingtao Beer has agreed to invest Rmb50m in a production facility in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons, according to senior inward investment officials from the city’s ETDZ....
Taiwan-based computer maker Acer officially confirmed that it will invest US$150m in Chongqing to build its biggest global IT manufacturing centre and set up its second base on the mainland....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that throughput of general cargo via the major ports along the Yangtze trunkline grew by nearly 20 per cent year-on-year to 122m tons in November....
Nanjing Maritime Safety Authorities announced on 29 November that they are building an oil-leak emergency response terminal in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in the city’s Liuhe district....
At 4:30am on 29 November, Zhenjiang Maritime Safety Authorities imposed a temporary ban on shipping as heavy fog enveloped the waters of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province and visibility fell to below minimum safety levels during...
Zhenjiang city’s inspection and quarantine officials discovered common wild-oats among a shipment of imported sorghum. This fast-growing weed spreads quickly and can damage linseed, wheat, beans, corn and other crops....
Major Chinese ports recorded a container throughput of 108m TEU in the first three quarters of 2010, according to a report by ResearchInChina....
China’s Ministry of Railways has approved the timetable of passenger and cargo services on the new Yichang-Wanzhou railway....
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s economic planner and price regulator, has requested local governments to crack down on petrol stations selling diesel above state-set prices....
In an effort to help reduce logistic costs and control household bills, the State Council has issued a circular covering a raft of measures including waiving road tolls for all trucks carrying fresh grocery and live poultry a...
Passenger traffic at Shanghai’s two main airports, Hongqiao and Pudong, rose 29 per cent year-on-year in October to 3.89m, according to Shanghai Airport Authority....
BASF aims to invest more than US$1.3bn in additional plants in China by 2014, according to a report by the Financial Times....
According to Jiujiang Daily published on 30 November, Jiangxi provincial government is going all out to help build Jiujiang’s Gongqingcheng (Youth City) into China’s new production centre for mobile phones....
Wharf (Holdings), the Hong Kong-based property and infrastructure company, said it has won a bid for a piece of land in Wuhan’s Hanyang district for Rmb1.02bn.
The land covers an area of 42,200 sq metres on which Wha...
Singapore’s International Enterprise, a government body designed to promote the overseas growth of Singapore-based enterprises and international trade, has opened an office in Wuhan, its 10th across the world....
According to a local newspaper, Wuhan police have tracked down more than 400 missing public bicycles, with the help of Xinfeida, the company that operates a free bicycle-renting scheme in the city....
South Korea-based Hankook Tire, the world’s seventh-largest tyre maker, is to invest US$950m to build a manufacturing plant in Chongqing, Xinhua reported.
The new plant, located in Liangjiang New Area, will start con...
The US-based Johnson Controls is to establish an auto battery production base in Lidu New Zone in Fuling, Chongqing municipality, according to a local government website....
Hong Kong-listed Nine Dragons Paper has started to build the second phase of its plant in Chongqing....