February 2011
Wang Jiefa, director of the Jiangyin-based Yangtze Piloting Centre, has promised to improve its services by implementing eight measures announced at a meeting on 18 February....
January 2011 figures show that container throughput in Taicang terminal reached 175,200 TEU, up nearly 45 per cent over the same period last year. Throughput of general cargo grew by 32 per cent to 7.54m tons....
Nantong city government in Jiangsu province has recently approved an ambitious plan to dredge its inland waterway network, according to the Yangtze River Administration....
Maritime safety officials in Tongling have successfully lobbied the local government to invest in ferry services for residents living in Xuba and Laozhou, two counties on a river island with a population of nearly 60,000 peop...
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has recently been appointed by the State Development and Reform Commission to pioneer reforms in the services sector, reported Chengdu Daily....
According to a report by China News Services on 23 February, 70 per cent of the drilling work for the Shanghai-Nantong Yangtze Bridge has been completed....
A major state-owned Chongqing cruise operator has unveiled its new models, according to the municipal government’s website....
Hubei province plans to increase Wuhan port’s container capacity to 3.3m TEU by 2015 and overall cargo capacity to 150m tonnes, reported Xinhua....
In an interview with South China Morning Post, the Asia-Pacific chief executive of Agility Logistics, Hans Hickler, predicted continued good growth in China this year....
The removal last week of China’s Ministry of Railways, Liu Zhijun, due to an investigation of possible corruption, has prompted some commentators to predict a slowdown in the country’s fast-expanding high-speed ra...
China exported US$40.3bn-worth of ships and boats in 2010, up 42 per cent on the previous year, according to statistics released by the General Administration of Customs....
Shanghai-based China Cargo Airlines may start flying from Shanghai to St Louis in Missouri in the US from June this year, reported the Kansas City Star....
Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways is to launch non-stop flights between Taipei Songshan airport and Chongqing Jiangbei airport in March 2011....
Following a deal signed last week with Canadian Adriana Resources to qcquire a stake in an iron ore project in Quebec, Wuhan Iron & Steel (Group) has become the steel manufacturer with the most iron ore resources in the w...
A Sino-American joint exploration of natural gas has started in Chongqing, according to a local government source....
Swedish carmaker Volvo, owned by Zhejiang Geely, has finally decided to set up a manufacturing facility in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, according to Reuters....
Jens Eskelund, Managing Director of Maersk China, will make a presentation at the Yangtze Business Network conference next month on accessing China’s interior via the Yangtze....
Wuhu government officials headed by deputy mayor Hong Jianping visited the Yangtze River Administration in Wuhan on 15 February to consult the central regulators over the construction of Wuhu’s No.2 Yangtze Bridge.
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On 12 February, an oil tanker carrying 990 tons of No.90 diesel oil set off from Wuhan to Yichang....
The Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport has recently set up a special task force to speed up the vessel standardisation programme....
Bulk cargo and port infrastructure group PYI Corp has agreed to sell a 50.1 per cent stake in Jiangsu Yangkou port to the investment arm of Rudong county government in Nantong, for Rmb1.51bn....
Jiangsu ports handled 1.5bn tonnes of cargo in 2010, according to provincial data, double the total in 2005. Its container throughput exceeded 11m TEU, Xinhua reported....
The forwarding and logistics services company Panalpina is to open an office in Chongqing, having already opened offices in Wuhan and Chengdu....
According to Chongqing Evening News, Chongqing Customs is to focus on setting up e-commerce infrastructure and an international trade settlement centre to help facilitate the city’s new cargo railway route to Burma and...
China aims to extend its rural road network from 3.45m km to 3.9m km by 2015, said the country’s transport authorities....
Plans have been drawn up to invest some Rmb30bn in new airports in China’s far western region of Xinjiang between 2011 and 2015....
The Sichuan department of the State Statistics Bureau announced on 15 February that among the 19 large and medium-sized cities in the province, Chengdu, Deyang and Mianyang ranked first, second and third respectively in the l...
The Chinese government will spend Rmb6.7bn to combat the severe drought in northern China, reported China Daily....
Property company Dalian Wanda has acquired a plot in Wuhu, Anhui province for Rmb308m to start its first large mixed-use property project in the city....
Japan-based THK is to build an automobile parts production base in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, Jiangsu province....
The second phase construction of Chongqing’s Cuntan Bonded Port Area is due to start operating by the end of May 2001.
Incorporating both an airport and port, the bonded area covers 8.37 sq km....
APAC Resources, the Hong Kong-listed investor and commodities trader, has signed a framework agreement to build a top-grade paper manufacturing plant in Chongqing, according to a municipal government website....