China Shipping

SHANGHAI, March 17 (Reuters) – China has begun building its first polar expedition cruise ship, state news agency Xinhua reported Saturday, as the

SYDNEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Australia, the United States, India and Japan are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an

By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Bit by bit, the U.S. petroleum industry is turning world oil markets inside out. First, sharp drops in

By Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — Last week, China said it plans to build a “Polar Silk Road” that will open shipping lanes across the

By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) Container shipping lines could lose around 5m teu of cargo a year following the recent import ban on a variety of

by Chen Aizhu (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Transport is planning to establish a laboratory specializing in treating oil spills at sea, the first of

BEIJING, Jan 26 (Reuters) – China on Friday outlined its ambitions to extend President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative to the

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s General Administration of Customs just confirmed what liquefied natural gas industry insiders have been

SHANGHAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near a disputed territory claimed by China in the South China Sea earlier in the week, U.S.

By Philip Wen and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products

by Philip Wen (Reuters) – China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump said

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL, Dec 20 (Reuters) – South Korea’s coast guard said it fired 249 warning shots over a group of Chinese fishing boats

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Dec 20 (Reuters) – More than 300 large dry cargo ships are having to wait outside Chinese and Australian ports in a

By Drazen Jorgic (Reuters) – China is lavishing vast amounts of aid on a small Pakistani fishing town to win over locals and build a commercial

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – While attention in Asia has been distracted by the North Korean nuclear crisis in the past year, China

PANAMA CITY, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Panama and China will begin negotiations in June 2018 to sign a free-trade deal, the two countries’ trade ministers

By Jack Kaskey and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — China is upending the global plastics market. The world’s biggest user of scrap has stopped accepting

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (Reuters) – NATO needs to establish a new regional base for protecting the North Atlantic against increased Russian naval

MANILA, Nov 6 (Reuters) – The Philippines expressed concern on Monday about China’s testing of a massive dredging ship, saying it would track its

By Michael Martina BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) – China hopes the United States can “help and not cause problems” in the disputed South China