Special Report - Asia Focus
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Four steps to shipping heaven
THE head of one of China's largest privately held shipowning and chartering companies has renewed his call for owners to take concerted action to scrap older tonnage and reduce capacity by postponing deliveries and cutting vessel size.
Crisis spurs change in trade patterns
THE boom in container volumes over the last decade that followed China’s emergence as the world’s factory may never regain the strength it once had as changing trading patterns, partly caused by the global financing crisis, take hold.
China Steel Express weighs up a platform for expansion
CHINA Steel Express, the bulk shipping division of Taiwan’s largest steelmaker, China Steel Corp, is mulling plans to rebuild its bulker fleet after shedding older tonnage over the last 10 months. But insiders said that with the bill for a 180,000 dwt capesize newbuilding standing at around $55m-$56m for 2011-2012 delivery, prices are too rich for the company.
Industry ready for Marintec
THE shipbuilding sector may be in the doldrums with around 15% of orders cancelled or delayed and the tanker and container trades may be in crisis. But the global maritime industry will turn out in force next week for the biennial Marintec all-China maritime conference and exhibition taking place in Shanghai between December 1-4.
New Chinese container ports could be at full capacity by 2020
CONTAINER ports in China could be capacity constrained towards the end of the next decade, assuming all the additional expansion projects planned are completed in 2013.
Crewing still remains key challenge
BACK in the late 1990s, when China was emerging as an important shipping centre, there were high hopes that the Middle Kingdom would provide a solution to the looming global crewing crisis. Foreign shipowners and shipmanagers saw the vast potential created by the thousands of students graduating from such august institutions as Dalian, Shanghai and Jimei maritime universities.
China shows its powers of recovery
SIXTY years ago, China was a country that was riven by war and occupation and would later be unified as a socialist state by the Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong.
FedEx eyes bigger slice of Asian freight market
FEDERAL Express, the US courier and cargo transportation giant, is strengthening its rivalry with traditional logistics players such as Kuehne+Nagel, Schenker and Agility after expanding its FedEx Trade Networks freight forwarding operation.
Geodis Wilson plans inland China incursion
CHINA’S likely focus from being the world’s manufacturing centre to a growing consumer-led economy has sparked growing interest from Geodis Wilson, the European logistics company which is affiliated with French rail company SNCF.
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