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Data from Chinese ports reveals slowdown
Jul 8, 2011 (WiC 114)

Two reports from the port sector are worthy of note this week. At first they look a little contradictory. But on reflection they offer two different perspectives on conditions in China’s domestic economy. The first is from Parash Jain and ...

Superman flies south

Singapore delighted to win Li Ka-shing’s southern China ports mandate
Jan 28, 2011 (WiC 93)

Where’s a decent superhero when you need one? That was one response to news that Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa will sell the majority of its interest in its Pearl River Delta ports – primarily Hong Kong and Yantian (east of ...

The river runs deep

Why Maersk is so excited by the Yangtze River’s opportunities
Dec 16, 2010 (WiC 89)

The year 1858 was a particularly humiliating one for Chinese officials. It marked the mid-point of the second ‘Opium War’, and victorious Western forces occupied Guangzhou as well as a series of coastal forts guarding the way to Beijing. The ...

Is shipping data indicating a China-inspired double-dip recession?
Jul 30, 2010 (WiC 71)

When it comes to shipping forecasts, few have proved as crucial as the one delivered by James Martin Stagg. The Briton, who served as General Eisenhower’s meteorologist for the D-Day landings, forecast that the bleak sailing conditions of June ...

Don’t sink, float

Leading ship equipment maker IPOs in Shanghai
Dec 11, 2009 (WiC 42)

Like the Titanic, the Andrea Gail is famous for sinking. The sturdy fishing boat disappears into the deep during a “perfect storm”, as told by author Sebastian Junger. The film version starred George Clooney. He drowns rather handsomely, of ...

Manning the ores

Without China we’d be suicidal, says shipping boss
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

There’s a chart that keeps Tim Huxley awake at night. It shows the global order book for new bulk carriers (ships carrying dry cargo like iron ore or coal). What it highlights is a scary spike this year and in 2010. With abnormally high ...

The shipping news is glum, but China’s ports hope for a turnaround
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

There have been boom times before. Quanzhou, a Song dynasty port on the Yellow Sea that first began to flourish a thousand years ago, attracted traders from great distances, writes James Delgado in Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet. “Nowhere in the ...

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