Greek shipowner TMS Cardiff Gas has inked a long-term contract with Singapore shipyard group Seatrium for LNG carrier repairs and upgrades.

Container carriers have shifted to a much greater proportion of owned tonnage in the newbuild ordering spree in the past few years but whether that will reduce costs versus chartered-in tonnage remains open to question.

Maersk has officially launched commercial operation of multi-country consolidation centre (MCC) in Shanghai Lingang free trade zone.

US-based investment firm Nebula Energy has bought a majority stake in Singapore-based Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Company (AG&P) LNG and looks at forming new firm to transport LNG.

CSSC Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding have inked retrofit project to install methanol propulsion on a CMA CGM container ship.

The north Chinese port of Shandong posted a cargo throughput of 1.71 billion tons in 2023, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year, making it the world’s busiest cargo handling port.

The Red Sea crisis and vessel diversions via the Cape of Good Hope impacted container line schedule reliability in December 2023.

GTT, technological expert in membrane containment systems has signed two new Technical Services Agreements (TSA) with JOVO, a major energy supplier based in China.

Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has ordered an additional two 7,000 ceu LNG-powered pure car and truck carriers from China Merchants Jinling Shipyard.