October 2011
China Development Bank and the National Development and Reform Commission have signed an agreement to jointly support China’s logistics industry, according to the bank’s website.
The NDRC will create favourable...
Changshu port in Jiangsu province imported 1.502m cubic metres of timber worth US$236m during the first nine months of 2011, a record high in terms of both volume and value, according to China News Services....
Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the major source of the China’s largest rivers, are melting at a faster rate because of global warming, according to researchers quoted by Xinhua.
Since 2005 experts have been...
Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan has vowed to lift half of the municipality’s 18 poorest counties out of poverty by 2015....
A landslide in Chongqing municipality blocked part of the Yangtze River's navigation route on 21 October, forcing the cancellation of a river cruise, Xinhua reported local authorities as saying.
The landslide happened in W...
China’s total logistics expenses grew 18.7 per cent year-on-year to Rmb5,700bn in the first nine months of 2011, mostly because of rising costs of raw materials, fuel, power and labour, and a higher interest rate, accor...
Nanjing will build its first modern tram line in time for the Youth Olympics in 2014, according to local news reports....
Toyota Motor is investing US$689m to build an R&D centre in Changshu, Jiangsu province....
Yangtze Maritime Safety Authorities have issued a special air draught warning as the water level at the Three Gorges Dam rose to near the maximum of 175 metres....
Wuhan Iron & Steel Co, one of China’s leading iron and steel makers, achieved a net profit of Rmb413.4m in the third quarter of 2011, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 24 per cent....
Shanghai has suspended work on a new metro line due to safety concerns, a month after a train collision in the city injured more than 280 people, state media reported.
The move followed complaints to the municipal governme...
Wuhan International Expo Centre opened for business on 15 October, hosting the 2011 National Auto Parts Trade Fair....
Chinese authorities have agreed to provide financial support for major railway projects that face cash constraints, China Securities Journal reported.
The move follows a policy instituted earlier in October by the Ministry...
Official statistics show that container throughput in Maanshan Port jumped 80 per cent year-on-year to 60,619 TEU in the first nine months of 2011 and is expected to reach 80,000 TEU for the full year....
Siemens is to set up an industrial automation manufacturing and R&D base in Chengdu, Sichuan province....
The Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been awarded a contract to design a redevelopment of a 2km stretch of central Nanjing’s Yangtze riverfront....
Most toll roads in China suffered losses last year according to traffic authorities in 16 provinces that have released financial reports on their tollways, reported China Daily.
All mainland provinces, municipalities and a...
Vice Minister of Transport Xu Zuyuan announced on 14 October that the sixth phase of Shanghai’s Waigaoqiao terminal had been officially completed and approved for operation....
The water level in the Wanzhou section of the Yangtze River in Chongqing municipality reached 173.87 metres on 17 October, approaching the planned maximum storage water level of 175 metres, according to Chongqing Maritime Saf...
Yangtze Maritime Safety Authorities issued a public warning on 11 October that vessels passing the middle reaches would need separate permits as the dry season starts and as water level has fallen to as low as 3.5 metres in p...
Zhangjiagang Maritime Safety Authority penalised an international container shipping agent with a fine of Rmb30,000 on 18 October for failing to declare six containers of zinc oxide (UN code 3077), a white powder insoluble in...
AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, is to invest US$200m to build a new manufacturing facility in Taizhou, Jiangsu province....
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is launching a scheduled freighter service between the SAR and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province....
Responding to public criticism about high toll fees, China’s transport minister has called for better regulation and more transparent operation of the country’s toll ways, reported Xinhua....
Maersk’s newly-launched service Daily Maersk on the Asia-Europe route has given hope to large manufacturers such as Wuhan-based TPV Technology that their call for more reliable barge services on the Yangtze River will g...
China’s main ports handled 768.9m tonnes of freight in August, up 11.2 per cent year-on-year, according to Ministry of Transport statistics....
China’s port construction levy, now collected by local maritime safety authorities rather than port authorities as before, will be reduced by 20 per cent, according to the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry...
The amount of cargo carried by China’s railways increased 8 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011 to 2.92bn tonnes....
The president and CEO of the San Diego Unified Port District told a logistics conference in Nanjing that competition among China’s many river and sea ports could ruin the environment and reduce economies of scale due to...
On 10 October, the water level at the Three Gorges Dam reached 170 metres, only five metres below the target of 17 5 metres....
Statistics from Zhenjiang Maritime Safety Authority show that for the first nine months of the year, cargo throughput in Zhenjiang port went up by 25 per cent year-on-year to 82.71m tons....
A railway connecting southwest China’s Chongqing and the northwestern city of Lanzhou in Gansu province will be opened to traffic in 2014, Xinhua reported....
Deputy Minister of Transport Xu Zuyuan announced on 28 September that the minimum guaranteed water level in the 101km section between Nanjing and Wuhu will be raised from 9.0 metres to 10.5 metres in the flood season and from...
Much of the seafood from the waters off Guangdong province in south China is contaminated, according to tests reported by Yangcheng Evening News....
The Three Gorges Administration, in charge of navigational affairs between the Three Gorges Dam and Gezhouba Dam, has decided to adopt the normal traffic lane system at the end of this year’s flood season....
Official statistics show that throughput of general cargo on the Yangtze trunk line rose by nearly 14 per cent year-on-year to 132m tons in September, while container throughput increased nearly 20 per cent to 970,000 TEU....