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Fresh facts have emerged that Chinese seafarers’ basic salary is expected to up 7% beginning from next year comparing with the standards in 2021, the country ship owners have agreed.…

The surge in newbuilding orders at Chinese shipbuilders has been maintained across the first eight months of 2021, up some 227.2%. Three major shipbuilding indexes of China maintained…

Operational activities has gradually  restarted at Ningbo-Zhoushan port complex, one of China's largest container terminals. The Chinese container terminal closed two weeks ago…

The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) has disclosed that China’s iron ore imports dropped t. 88.5m tonnes in July, the lowest level since May 2020. The July lull comes as…

The People's Republic of China has commenced  production at the world’s first 100,000 dwt deep-water semi-submersible Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) installation.…

No fewer than  120,000 Chinese seafarers served onboard international, non-China owned vessels last year according to figures from the country’s maritime safety administration. …

Benefitting from the cooperation with major Chinese ports and the efforts to improve container logistics chain, the port posted a growth rate of over 20% year on year in May. …

Barely 15 months of their ordeal, the 6 crew members of the Greek ship Angelic Power have been given permission to return home. The crew of the vessel had been held in China over some…

After much delay, the ship MV Jag Anand with 23 Indian sailors who were stranded in Chinese waters for months due to Australian Coal Cargo ban has finally arrived in Tokyo. The seafarers…

A court in east Zhejiang Province in the People's Republic of China on Tuesday , sentenced 17 people to prison for smuggling more than 23 tons of pangolin scales into the country from…