CMA CGM has announced the launch of a new service connecting Asia with Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile from June 2022.

China’s logistics service providers China United Lines (CU Lines) and Antong Holding have established a strategic cooperation to jointly develop shipping service.

Twinchok Tanthuwanit has been appointed as the new President of Regional Container Lines (RCL) as the company plans for the future.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has become first Japanese company to joined the First Movers Coalition (FMC), an initiative established to boost demand for decarbonisation technologies at COP26.

Maersk has become the first foreign carrier to move international cargo in China’s cabotage market.

After a two-month city-wide lockdown against Covid outbreaks, Shanghai is close to zero cases and will fully resume factory production and operations from 1 June.

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has contracted its first containership newbuildings from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Nihon Shipyard Ltd.

Affected by the covid-pandemic domestically, the major shipbuilding indexes of Chinese shipyards showed clear decline during January-April 2022.

End buyers are holding off finalising deals as steel plate prices fall and recycling currencies slip sharply against the dollar, according to the latest update from GMS, the world’s largest cash buyer of end-of-life ships.

Singapore has appointed 18 maritime youth ambassadors to champion the industry among students looking to make career choices.