A 400,000-dwt valemax, owned by China Ore Shipping, has arrived off the coast of China’s Qingdao on Tuesday and is expected to call at Dongjiakou port, local reports said, signalling an end to earlier opposition voices from China to disallow...
China Cosco Holdings and China Shipping Development Co (CSDC) have agreed to jointly establish a Singapore joint venture to focus on iron ore transportation business and other dry bulk shipping related work.
Brazilian miner Vale has sold four Valemax VLOCs to Cosco, and has moved forward on a plan to sell four units to China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES).
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, China’s biggest privately-owned shipyard, has expressed interest to bid for the tenders to construct very large ore carriers (VLOCs), its executive chairman Ren Yuanlin said.
China Cosco Holdings has stayed in the red in the first quarter, and is seeking progress on a transportation agreement with Brazil’s Vale on the very large ore carriers (VLOCs).
As China moves towards ending a three-year ban on 400,000 dwt valemaxes from docking at its ports there are mixed reactions to how great the impact will be.
China may soon allow valemax bulk carriers to call at Chinese ports following a recent statement released by the ministry of transport on guidelines for the design and scale of such 400,000 dwt mega-sized VLOCs.
Vale’s port terminal Ponta da Madeira has signed a cooperation agreement with China’s Qingdao port for an increase in the handling of iron ore between the terminals.