Japanese shipbuilders received export orders for a total 536,000 gross tons or 18 vessels in June, down 46.9% year on year but up 7.1% from May, Japan Ship Exporters’ Association data showed.
News ID: 80117 Publish Date : 2018/07/15
World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 154.9 million tonnes (Mt) in May 2018, a 6.6% increase compared to May 2017.
News ID: 80094 Publish Date : 2018/06/28
US trade tariffs and the threat of a trade war are putting pressure container freight rates on the China – North America trade as lines head into all important negotiations for annual contracts.
News ID: 78762 Publish Date : 2018/03/28
Japan's largest shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding is acquiring a domestic rival Minaminippon Shipbuilding as of April 1. The yard says the move will boost production capacity and international competitiveness.
News ID: 78396 Publish Date : 2018/02/04
K Line:
2018 promises to be a decisive year for Japan’s K Line Group as the company steams its way toward rebuilding its portfolio strategy.
News ID: 78057 Publish Date : 2018/01/10
NYK president Tadaaki Naito called for promoting environmental issues and the utilization of IoT. "I hope to advance the group’s activities with a focus particularly on the keywords 'green' and 'digitalization' this year," he said.
News ID: 78034 Publish Date : 2018/01/09
A Japan Coast Guard (JCG) vessel will leave Hakodate on 28 December for joint anti-piracy exercises in India and Malaysia.
News ID: 77841 Publish Date : 2017/12/24
Japan imported 25.278 million barrels of crude oil from the UAE in September 2017, according to data released by the Agency of Energy and Natural Resource in Tokyo.
News ID: 77153 Publish Date : 2017/11/06
The 20,170 teu MOL Truth has been registered with Panama, a first for the Registry.
News ID: 77065 Publish Date : 2017/10/31
South Korean shipbuilding industry has surpassed China in three months and reached the top of global monthly shipbuilding orders.
News ID: 76146 Publish Date : 2017/09/07
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) announced the signing of agreements with Swan LNG Private Limited (Swan LNG) for the long-term operation / maintenance of a floating, storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and provision and long-term operation / maintenance of a floating and storage unit (FSU) that will serve as the core receiving facilities in an LNG terminal to be developed by Swan Energy Limited (Swan Energy) in Gujarat, India.
News ID: 76039 Publish Date : 2017/09/03
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) is lokoking to test run a remote-controlled containership transit across the Pacific in 2019, according to Bloomberg.
News ID: 75891 Publish Date : 2017/08/26
The Federal Court of Australia has convicted Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) of criminal cartel conduct and ordered it to pay a fine of $25 million relating to the transportation of motor vehicles to Australia between 2009 and 2012.
News ID: 75420 Publish Date : 2017/08/06
Japan’s big three shippers -Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) - have reported profits for the first quarter, bouncing back from losses a year earlier Reuters reported.
News ID: 75370 Publish Date : 2017/08/04
The healthy international trade and cost cutting measures augurs well for Japan's to three marine shippers - Nippon Yusen, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha - reported Nikkei.
News ID: 75006 Publish Date : 2017/07/17
The big three Japanese lines will engage with the Competition Commission of South Africa to review the authority’s recent rejection of their planned container lines business merger. But say work on the merger will proceed in the meantime.
News ID: 74647 Publish Date : 2017/06/25
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) have partnered to develop the next-generation vessel monitoring and support systems for commercial applications.
News ID: 74642 Publish Date : 2017/06/25
The new joint venture container shipping entity of Japan’s big three carriers will operate under the tradename Ocean Network Express with its holding company based in Japan and an operating company incorporated in Singapore.
News ID: 74301 Publish Date : 2017/06/07
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that its joint project with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on developing a technological concept for autonomous ocean transport system, was selected by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism (MLIT) .
News ID: 74169 Publish Date : 2017/05/28
South Korean shipyards emerged on top for new orders in April, Business Korea reported quoting industry data.
News ID: 73885 Publish Date : 2017/05/12