New Anhui port development plan includes extension of major navigation channels to 1,500 kilometres. Under this plan, the port capacity should reach 500 million tonnes by 2015. The province plans to spend US$15.8 million a year on waterborne transport during the National Five-year Plan from 2011 to 2015. Anhui also aims to enhance shoreline [...]
China says Bangladesh’s proposed deep seaport in Sonadia Island is of strategic importance to the country and is helpful to become the … (thedailystar) Source: thedailystar, January 23, 2012;
Tyne Gangway and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) have inked a gangway deal for the dredging vessel Chang Jiang Kou 01. This agreement was signed after the companies exhibiting at China’s largest maritime trade exhibition, Marintec. “We have made some fantastic contacts and have received some very promising sales leads. Marintec 2011 has been a [...]
Odfjell SE has made an agreement to enter into a joint venture via its subsidiary Odfjell Terminals Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore), with Tianjin Economic-Technology Development Area (TEDA) via its subsidiary Nangang Port Company to develop a terminal and marine facilities for bulk liquid chemicals, petroleum products and gases in the Nangang Industrial Zone (Tianjin) in [...]
China has conveyed to Sri Lanka that it understands the primacy of the relationship between India and the island nation, a Sri Lankan MP … By Elizabeth Roche (livemint) Source: livemint, January 11, 2012;
Tongheng, the 11000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger being constructed by CMHI, was successfully launched on December 26. Guests from CCCC, Tianjin Dredging Corporation, MARIC and CCS Shenzhen Branch presented at the ceremony. Emceed by Mr. Tu Fengqing, the Deputy Managing Director of CMHI, Mr. Zhu Guiming, the Managing Director of CMHI, and Mr. Gu Ming, [...]
State-owned China Harbor Engineering Co (CHEC), one of China’s top port builders, sealed new contracts worth $5.2 billion last year, … (chinadaily) Source: chinadaily, January 10, 2012; Image: chec
Recently, CCCC Second Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CCCC 2nd Harbour Co.) has won the bid for the project of the central fishing port in Yazhou, Sanya, Hainan Province, with a contract value of 427 million yuan and a construction period of 12 months. Located at west Sanya’s Yazhou Bay and the marine outlet of the [...]
Construction of the Chongqing-based Lianglu Cuntan Bonded Port Area was completely finished on Dec. 14. The Lianglu Cuntan Bonded Port is China’s only inland bonded port area. Local authorities plan to develop the port area into a large-scale bonded laptop production and logistics base with an annual output of at least 50 million laptops and [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will offer loans of $200 million to Anhui province to improve its transport infrastructure. The loans will be used to upgrade and dredge highways and channels across the Industrial Transfer Demonstration Zone in the Anhui Yangtze River City Belt. Under the auspices of the loan program, seven highroads running over [...]
