CU Lines orders 7,000 teu boxship pair at Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding

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China United Lines (CU Lines) has placed an order at CSSC Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) for two 7,000 teu containerships. Katherine Si | Feb 28, 2022 Designed by SDARI, the boxship pair is in 272.5 metres length and 42.8 metres width, meeting the requirements of EEDI III and Tier III. Equipped with AMP system and scrubber, the two vessels are efficient and environment-friendly.  It is the first time CU Lines has ordered from Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding. With the signing of the two 7,000 teu containerships, Waigaoqiao has maintained its position as the world’s largest intermediate container shipbuilder, said Waigaoqiao. Related: CU Lines orders boxship pair from Huangpu Wenchong With the addition of the two 7,000 teu containerships, the order on hand of the same type of vessel for Waigaoqiao is reaching 30. Earlier in February, CU Lines ordered two 2,700 teu containerships at CSSC’s Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard.

Shenzhen aims for 33m teu container volume by 2025

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The southern Chinese port of Shenzhen is targeting 33m teu container throughput by 2025. Katherine Si | Mar 01, 2022 Shenzhen will prioritize the container transportation service development at the port areas of Yantian, Nanshan and Dachan Bay, promote container terminal facility expansion including the projects at east port area of Yantian port, the second phase container terminal pre-project of Dachan Bay and the shipping channel project at west port area of Shenzhen. It will also strengthen LNG services ability at its port area, aiming to have 16m tons LNG receiving capacity by the year of 2025.  Related: Yantian port targets 16m teu container volume by 2025 Shenzhen is going to integrate its LNG transportation resources and form local LNG carrier fleet to meet the demands from both international and domestic LNG transportation, as well as the LNG bunkering market. Related: Yantian port targets 16m teu container volume by 2025 Last year, Shenzhen posted a container volume 28.77m teu, an increase of 8.36% year-on-year, setting a new record.

Major Chinese ports container volume falls 10.6% in early Feb

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 Container volume at eight major Chinese ports declined 10.6% year-on-year in early February coinciding with the lunar new year holidays. Katherine Si | Feb 23, 2022 Export container volume declined 8.3% while the domestic volume dropped 20.2 % due to many factories were closed for the Chinese New Year in early February. Cargo throughput at major coastal hub ports declined 7.5% year-on-year while international trade cargo throughput dropped 7.6%. Related: Major Chinese ports container volume up 1.2% in late January Crude oil shipments at major coastal ports declined 11.6% year-on-year while the port inventory increased 2.3%. Metal ore shipments at major Chinese ports increased 0.8% year-on-year, among which the port of Rizhao posted over 20% growth rate.  The Chinese New Year brought about further decrease of cargo volume at three major Yangtze river ports. Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing’s cargo throughput for early Feb declined 26% while the container volume dropped 32.2%.

Modern Terminals upgrades with Navis N4 handling system

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 MODERN Terminals Limited (MTL) has completed its upgrade of Navis' N4 Terminal Operating System (TOS) in Hong Kong and DaChan Bay, reports the American Journal or Transportation. One of the largest terminal operators in the region, MTL selected Navis N4 to optimise terminal operations to provide high-quality services to customers. MTL has been a pioneer in the container terminal industry in Hong Kong and mainland China since it opened Hong Kong's first purpose-built container-handling facility in 1972. MTL and Navis worked together to bring the terminal online with a modern system to support its operations. "Our TOS is one of the keys to delivering high levels of productivity and efficiency in our operations," said MTL chief innovation officer Michael Yip. "With the updated system in place, we are well-positioned to not only meet the needs of our shipping line customers today but also support our future plans to bring in more digital initiatives to our terminals in Hong Kong and Da Chan Bay." Said Navis vice president David Houser: "During a high stakes environment for the global supply chain industry, we are thrilled to work together with the MTL team to further advance its terminal operations and reach its business goals with the latest version of N4." "With our intelligent TOS connecting the dots throughout the terminal, MTL has all the data it needs at its fingertips to make real-time business decisions; building its reputation as a reliable gateway to keep cargo flowing smoothly in the region."

Yard congestion has Shenzhen slowing export boxes

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SHIPPERS moving goods through Chinese ports are facing additional disruption and delays days before factories to close for nearly two weeks for Chinese New Year February 1, reports IHS Media. Shenzhen's Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) began restricting the entry of laden export containers to four days before a vessel's time of berthing because of yard congestion. Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) handles 25 per cent of transpacific exports from China; half of its total volume - 28.8 million TEU - is US-bound. In an advisory, Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports, which operates YICT blamed the lack of space in its yard to vessel delays caused by US and European port congestion. Yantian has also seen a 30 per cent spike in cargo volumes in January compared with December, according to forwarders. "Under such circumstances, there are many laden boxes stuck inside the terminal and the yard density is close to full," YICT said. Although limiting gate-in entry, YICT said it would maintain its daily entry quota of 12,000 laden containers. Due to yard congestion at Shekou Container Terminal, the second-busiest of Shenzhen's three main container terminals, laden containers are only being accepted within three days of a vessel's actual arrival.    

Docking at Yantian terminals delayed a week, Covid blamed

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CARGO has been backing up at Shenzhen's Yantian terminals for as long as a week as congestion builds in China-US trade, reports Bloomberg. Manufacturers in southern China are currently making a last push to ship out goods before the Chinese New Year which starts February 1, with the People's Daily reporting that trucked volumes into Shenzhen's Yantian terminals were about 30 per cent above December levels. Those goods are stacking up as ships coming to pick them up have in turn been delayed by congestion in the US and Europe. Ships arriving to the Yantian terminal were delayed by seven day and the number of ships arriving from Europe and the US has fallen more than 40 per cent in the last two weeks, said a terminal advisory. That comes on top of the problems Shenzhen port was already facing, with a Covid outbreak earlier this month leading to lockdowns of districts, testing of workers and trucking delays at the Yantian and Shekou container terminals. The congestion has prompted the Yantian terminal to say it will start restricting the acceptance of containers. To stop operations getting worse, from Friday full containers can only be trucked in four days before vessels are due to berth, the operator said. Last week was the peak period to ship goods in and out of China as workers will start to head home for the holiday, according to digital freight forwarder Zencargo. That's followed by a lull in activity before shipping demand picks up in mid-February.  

23,992-TEUer transits Suez on Qingdao-Rotterdam run

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THE Panamanian-flagged 23,992-TEU Ever Alp has made its maiden voyage through the Suez Canal, from Qingdao en route to Rotterdam, reports Cairo's Egypt Independent. The head of the Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie said that the canal has proven its leadership and ability to receive all giant containerships with a capacity of 24,000 containers. This category of giant ships specialises in crossing the Suez Canal and not any other shipping lanes to transport trade between Europe and Asia, he said. To ensure the safe passage, Mr Rabie ordered that all necessary measures be taken and appointed a group of senior guides within the authority to guide its journey across the canal. He also delegated two senior guides to board the ship, welcome its crew, hand over a souvenir to the captain of the ship, and complete its guidance from Ismailia to Port Said. The Ever Alp is the sister ship to the largest container ship in the world, the Ever Ace, and is fourth in a series of 12 giant A24 class ships, be built as part of Taiwan's Evergreen shipping line, where Samsung Shipyards Industries Heavyweight in South Korea is building six ships and six others are being built in China. The ship is 400 metres long and 61.5 metres wide, with a net tonnage of 221,000 tons, and it can carry up to 12,000 FEU on board.

Covid testing causes renewed congestion in Ningbo-Shanghai

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SHIPS were making the switch to Shanghai from Ningbo to avoid Covid delays which has thwarted trucking services, according to forwarders, reports Bloomberg. Those diversions are adding to the new wave of congestion facing China's ports as an increasing number of cities deal with the Covid scare. Strict testing of dockers and truckers ahead of Chinese New Year at the end of this month is further stressing already strained supply chains as the Covid scare heads into its third year. In the country's technology hub of Shenzhen in the south, testing of residents and truckers to contain an outbreak means a queue of ships has formed at the port. That's caused the Shekou terminal to start restricting the acceptance of goods, meaning that full containers can only be trucked in three days before vessels are due to arrive, the terminal operator said. Meanwhile, the northern Chinese city of Tianjin ordered workers to take a half-day break for Covid testing as officials try to contain the spread of the omicron variant. Trucking capacity is estimated to be half normal levels, and drivers are required to be tested daily before entering the port, said Alex Hersham, CEO of digital freight-forwarder Zencargo.    

Shanghai retains crown as the world’s busiest container port

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Container volume at Shanghai port in 2021 ranked number one globally for the 12 consecutive years amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Katherine Si | Jan 05, 2022 The port posted a container volume of over 47m teu in 2021, including 32m teu for international trading, an increase of around 3% year-on-year, and 6.3m teu for domestic market, an increase of around 2.3%. In 2021, international transhipment container volume at Shanghai port exceeded 6m teu for the first time, up around 13.4% year-on-year. Related: Shanghai port opens new centre to ease empty container shortage Shanghai Port is accelerating its digital transformation and improving port operation efficiency, exploring more innovations for ensuring the stable operation of supply chain. 

Covid lockdown measures disrupt operations at Ningbo port

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CORONAVIRUS disruptions have continued in China's Ningbo, where the world's third-largest container port is striving to maintain operation levels. Truck entry into the port area remains restricted while some container freight stations have halted operations due to roadblocks and other lockdown measures in the city's Beilun District, home to a string of large box terminals, reports UK's Lloyd's List. The latest infection wave, which emerged on January 1, has so far been contained within the district, where 26 local cases were confirmed on January 4. Most of them are from a workshop of a clothing company named Shenzhou International, the Ningbo government told a press conference. Among over 20,000 local container truck drivers, only 6,000 some had received special passes to enter and leave the port via five designated routes, according to the latest available government update. Delays of shipments are inevitable due to the traffic control, said a local freight forwarder. "Also, some truck drivers trapped in the lockdown area are unable to apply for the passes. Some are reluctant to go to Beilun and the terminals now deemed as a Covid risky area that can invoke quarantine requirement in other cities." Some warehouses and factories have also halted the pickup and delivery of cargo amid the restrictive rules, he added. "The impact is worse because we are now in the peak season for exports ahead of the Chinese New Year." The situation has raised concerns over deteriorating port congestion in the region, where pilots are also in short supply owing to separate Covid cases confirmed in other cities along the Yangtze River. Outside of Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan, figures from Lloyd's List Intelligence show that 120 ships comprising 613,713 TEU are still at anchor off the two ports on January 4. That is higher than the levels seen in mid-August when a major terminal in Ningbo's Meishan Island was shut down for several weeks because of a dockworker contracting coronavirus. Jiang Yipeng, a senior executive at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, which handled more than 30 million TEU last year, said the port is revving up efforts to cope with the challenge. The port handled over 97,000 TEU of containers a day between January 1-3, an increase of 8.5 per cent compared with the year-earlier period, he said.

Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering bags LNG bunker vessel order

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Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering has won a RMB441 million ($69.2m) order to build LNG bunkering vessel for CNOOC Energy Development. Katherine Si | Dec 23, 2021 The unit of CIMC Enric will build the 132.9 meters long vessel equipped with cargo tank with a capacity of no less than 12,000 c m, equipped with electric propulsion system.  Upon delivery, the vessel will be used for coastal LNG bunkering, LNG transshipment between inland LNG refilling stations and Yangtze river transfer station, servicing for China’s oil to gas programme. Related: Hudong Zhonghua christens France's first LNG bunker vessel “It is the first CSS-classified LNG bunkering vessel in China, which has a significant meaning to CIMC Enric to develop marine LNG business,” said Yang Xiaohu, general manager of CIMC Enric, “We are optimistic about LNG bunkering market and we will build more clean energy transportation vessels and bunkering vessels in the future,” Yang added.  

Major Chinese ports container volume up 4.1% in early December

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Container volume at eight major Chinese ports increased 4.1% year-on-year in early December. Katherine Si | Dec 23, 2021 Export container volume increased 2.5%, while domestic volumes were up 8.8% in early December. Fastest growing the port of Tianjin posted an increase of over 30%. Cargo throughput at major coastal hub ports increased 7% year on year while international trade cargo throughput up 10.3%. Related: Major Chinese ports container volume down 7.4% in early Nov Growth rate for crude oil shipments at major coastal ports was 26.8% year on year. The port of Yantai and Rizhao both posted a growth rate of over 50%. Port inventory increased 2.9%. Metal ore shipments at major Chinese ports increased 25.4% while the port inventory increased 30.7%. The port of Rizhao posted a growth rate of over 70%. In early December, cargo throughput and container volume at three major Yangtze river port, Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing dropped 13.7% and 13.5% year on year, respectively.