Asia

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has unveiled a new flexible cargo service to meet an anticipated rise in demand for freight services from Asia once the impact of the coronavirus pandemic eases.

CMHIT, a subsidiary of China Merchants Port, has entered into a IT system development agreement with Shekou Assets Management to develop a 5G innovation laboratory.

Commodities trading house Vitol has acquired Singapore’s bunkering firm Sinanju Tankers Holdings, allowing Vitol to carry out bunker deliveries in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port.

Seven crew members onboard containership Gjertrud Maersk berthed at Ningbo have been sent to hospital after one tested positive for COVID-19 according to an official statement from China’s Ministry of Transport.

Indonesia’s Kuala Tanjung Port in North Sumatra has made its first trade in the global container shipping market on Saturday, as the port seeks to tap on the busy seaborne trade in the Malacca Strait.

Global satellite communications provider Inmarsat has taken the role of a founding member in Asia’s first decarbonising shipping initiative.

China Merchants Energy Shipping subsidiary Hong Kong Ming Wah Shipping has ordered four 62,000 dwt vessels at Jinling Shipyard.

PSA Corp, Jurong Port and Singapore LNG (SLNG), have joined two other Singapore companies and two Japanese players in an agreement to develop ways of using hydrogen as a low carbon future fuel.

Singapore’s Kim Heng Offshore & Marine Holdings has set up a joint venture in Taiwan to seek more work in the offshore wind farm renewable energy sector.

Singapore is to allow crew changes under “special circumstances” recognising seafarers play a critical role in the global supply chain.