China

By Shane Romig BUENOS AIRES–Argentina’s coast guard has detained two Chinese ships as it steps up efforts to prevent illegal fishing in its waters.

Chinese demand growth for imported coal will almost halt next year before shipments contract in 2014 as the nation’s improving transport network allows

Rickmers-Linie is to take delivery of two 20,000dwt newbuildings in 2015, built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China. Both of these multi-purpose vessels

Keppel Corp., the world’s biggest oil-rig builder, may consider buying a yard in China as the nation boosts offshore drilling to meet rising energy

HONG KONG–Cnooc Ltd. (CEO), China’s largest offshore oil-and-gas producer by capacity, confirmed Saturday that the Canadian government approved

(Bloomberg) — Chinese fishing vessels accidentally cut the cables of a Vietnam Oil & Gas Group seismic ship doing work in Vietnam-controlled waters

RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian mining giant VALE SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) believes global demand for iron ore is “far from peaking,” though growth in

(Bloomberg) — Shanghai Shipping Exchange introduced dry-bulk and oil-tanker indexes in a challenge to a 268-year-old London bourse that sets freight

By Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins Two months after China’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning was commissioned, and a year and a half after it began sea

BEIJING–China has passed a landmark in the development of its first fully functional aircraft carrier with the first successful landing of a jet fighter

HONG KONG–China Shipping Container Lines Co. (2866.HK), or CSCL, plans to sell a fifth of its shipping containers for US$358.6 million to raise cash and

(Bloomberg) — China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd. said a new offshore-energy equipment unit may generate 50 percent of its orders over

BEIJING–Brazilian miner Vale SA has spent around $2 billion on a fleet of huge ships to carry its iron ore from Brazil to China. The problem: China

(Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container shipping line, is betting that China will evolve into a consumer

SHANGHAI–China Cosco Holdings Co. (1919.HK), the country’s largest shipping company by fleet size, said Tuesday its third-quarter net loss narrowed

(Bloomberg) — Rates to ship dry-bulk raw materials by sea are recovering after a four-year slump as Chinese demand for iron ore surged to the highest

(Bloomberg) — China Cosco Holdings Co., the nation’s largest listed shipping company, said the industry will expand as Chinese economic growth

SHENZHEN–Shipping giant China Cosco Holdings Co. (1919.HK, 601919.SH) is teaming up with its Shanghai-based archrival to jointly operate major domestic

(Bloomberg) — A Chinese fisherman died from injuries sustained in a South Korean coast guard raid after his vessel entered South Korean waters in the

China and Japan sat down for talks and agreed to jointly develop a natural gas field under the East China Sea, defusing a dispute between Asia’s