As Tianjin tightens travel restrictions from the north eastern Chinese city to combat an Omicron outbreak shipping and supply chain executives will be watching nervously for any impact on its port operations.

The Baltic Exchange and TradeFlow Capital Management have completed a pilot escrow transaction on a commodities trade between China and India.

CSSC Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding received its first shipbuilding order in 2022 from CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping for the construction of one 174,000 cu m LNG carrier.

Infographic from Information Fusion Centre (IFC) summarising boardings and attempted boardings in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait up to 6 January 2022.

The Chinese container carrier, CULines will collaborate with Global Feeder Shipping and Emirates Shipping Line to launch the Vietnam-Thailand-Middle East Express service (VGX) in January.

Since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed on 1 January, Ningbo-Zhoushan port says it has provided stable supply chain services at its port area.

New containerships will simply add to queues at ports unless landside bottlenecks are fixed, says Xenata analyst Peter Sand.

AET took delivery of Eagle Campos on January 5 2022, the first of three DP2 shuttle tankers for a longterm charter in Brazil with Shell.

China Classification Society announced the appointment of Sun Feng as the new president, taking over from Mo Jianhui who has retired.

Container volume at Shanghai port in 2021 ranked number one globally for the 12 consecutive years amid the Covid-19 outbreak.