Asia

Before the new year rolled around, the World Bank had put its forecast for Kazakhstan’s economy to grow by 3.7% for the whole of 2020. This would be down slightly from the 4.1% we clocked in 2019, but it was a figure in the positive range...

Shandong Port Overseas, a unit of Shandong Port Group, has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rizhao Port to jointly develop international markets.

ABS and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) have signed a joint development project (JDP) to pioneer 3D model-based class process.

Container shipping has announced marginal capacity reductions in the third quarter on the transpacific and Asia-Europe lanes amid continuing strengthening of spot rates, according to analyst Sea-Intelligence.

As a global solution to the crew change crisis remains elusive the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and its affiliated seafarer unions say they now assist their members to stop working and leave their vessels.

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Singapore Branch (ICS-SG) has announced a new training initiative to provide maritime education to persons with disabilities.

PSA Cargo Solutions, a unit of PSA International, and One Network Enterprises have formed a strategic partnership to expand services for global terminal operations and logistics.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and its consortium members have applied to the Nippon Foundation to seek funding for demonstration voyages to test technologies for unmanned vessels by March 2021.

Zhoushan Ningshing Shipbuilding has opened for business and will be a unit of Ningbo Ningshing Holdings focusing on shipbuilding and repair business.