Ocean shipping FCL | Warehousing | Declare at customsKY international logistics group was founded in 1993. After years of operation, it has developed into a large-scale professional comprehensive logistics group with a number of national industry licenses and international professional qualification certification, engaged in international import and export goods transportation and logistics extens...
1.GCL Oil Natural Gas has entered into a framework deal with the Hague-based energy giant Shell to market and trade liquefied natural gas in eastern China. 2.The cargo throughput of Yantai port in East Chinas Shandong province reached 79 million tons in the first quarter of 2020, up 6.3 percent from the same period last year. 3.Work at construction sites in the Haikou Jiangdong New District has b...
The cargo throughput of Yantai port in East Chinas Shandong province reached 79 million tons in the first quarter of 2020, up 6.3 percent from the same period last year.The performance was a promising start for the port in 2020, despite the epidemic.Yantai port cooperated with local shipping companies and opened a green channel for medical supplies to improve the efficiency of ship departure, carg...
Epidemic hasnt slowed down round-the-clock construction in island provinceEditors Note: 2020 is the year Hainan province initiates construction of the China (Hainan) Free Trade Port, a major national strategy promoted by President Xi Jinping in 2018. China Daily is running a special page to review the progress made by the China (Hainan) Pilot Free Trade Zone over the past two years. Work at constr...
As the COVID-19 crisis and its economic fallout intensify, contractual parties have increasingly invoked force majeure provisions to excuse performance of contracts. This article is a follow up to Schiffer Hicks Johnson’s earlier article on COVID-19 and force majeure clauses, and offers an update on emerging global trends in force majeure and the evolving considerations businesses should apply in ...
Chinese carriers are switching to cargo-only services amid a downturn in passenger demand as airlines including China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines have all started to transform their operations.On Sunday night, a twice-weekly passenger flight operated by China Southern flew from Shenzhen, South Chinas Guangdong Province, to Sydney, only this time as a cargo service...
1.Xu lirong selected as Chinas 50 most influential business leaders in 2020. 2.31 Foreign Workers Moved into Floating Accommodation at Tanjong Pagar Terminal, Singapore. 3.Financially troubled ship design and shipbuilding company Shanghai Bestway Marine Energy Technology has issued a notice seeking new investors to restructure the heavy debt of the company. 4.OPEC and other oil producers led by R...
CHINA – EUROPE – It seems the Covid-19 outbreak has reinvigorated the Silk Road multimodal cargo services which we saw developing support last year. In the UK freight forwarding outfitDavies Turnerreports that its direct, fixed-day, weekly rail import service from China to the UK, which re-commenced in mid-March, has broken the previously achieved record transit time.The weekly groupage service th...
While the number of physical on-board ship inspections has reduced considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to protect both port State control officers and seafarers, the regimes continue to work to target high-risk ships which may be substandard, IMO said in its release.The port State control (PSC) regimes which carry out inspections onboard ships to monitor and enforce compliance with...
Wuhans Yangluo Port is back in business on April 12. With the 76-day lockdown of Wuhan lifted on April 8, cargo overstocked at the port is being transported away.Source: ChinadailyThe opinions expressed herein are the authors and not necessarily those of The OLO News.
COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS ARE STORING UP TROUBLE FOR SEAFARERS AND GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINSThe International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have issued a joint call on behalf of seafarers to governments to facilitate the essential movement of seafarers and marine personnel. The letter from the shipowners’ organisation and seafarers’ union to governments...
On April 1, China issued a notice, during the prevention and control of the epidemic, international cargo ships are prohibited to carry people other than their crews entering into Chinese ports.The notice emphasized that international cargo ships intending to enter Chinese ports should immediately submit a declaration of non-carrying of personnel other than their own crew to the maritime administr...
At 2:50 p.m. local time on April 6, South Korea, a container ship of K line suddenly crashed into a container bridge crane while docking at a terminal in Busan Port.The ship is a large container ship named Milano Bridge, 13870TEU. The time of the incident was approximately 15:00 local time (14:00 Beijing time).At the time of the incident, the ship was in berthing operation. After the accident, the...
UK – British ferry routes are proving to be more than a little contentious in the current situation. With Stena and PO both furloughing workers and making redundancies the odd contrast between passenger carriage and essential freight services are, as with air cargo, making for a completely revised situation for the carriers involved.Since then the company has carried just 2593 passengers compared ...
In a few short months, the mayhem wrought by coronavirus has changed the world. Our response to the epidemic [more than the virus itself] has the potential to permanently alter the balance of the global economy. But it might be the kind of Black Swan event we need to trigger real change in the shipping industry, In particular, its approach to digitalising vessel operation.The maritime industry thi...
FINLAND – EUROPE – A group of companies with a wide span of abilities have embarked on a three year trial to explore how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and marine diesel engines. The aim is to determine the most ecologically and economically sustainable way to replace fossil fuels, particularly for use in ships and heavy equipment on land.Internal-comb...
UK – IRELAND – Having made much last week of how it was going to maintain the bulk of its European freight and passenger ferry services, this week Stena Line has announced that it plan to furlough 600 employees with 150 redundancies across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The move has met with some disapproval from the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) whose union represents the comp...
COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS ARE STORING UP TROUBLE FOR SEAFARERS AND GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINSThe International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have issued a joint call on behalf of seafarers to governments to facilitate the essential movement of seafarers and marine personnel. The letter from the shipowners’ organisation and seafarers’ union to governments...
A coalition of 80 US agriculture shipper associations and groups are calling for urgent action by the US federal government to end ‘punitive’ demurrage charges that are compounding the damage that the Covid-19 coronavirus is doing to US agriculture.Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, explained that “the damage coronavirus is doing to US agriculture is c...
In a few short months, the mayhem wrought by coronavirus has changed the world. Our response to the epidemic [more than the virus itself] has the potential to permanently alter the balance of the global economy. But it might be the kind of Black Swan event we need to trigger real change in the shipping industry, In particular, its approach to digitalising vessel operation.The maritime industry thi...
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