Tag: China

ICS welcomed the China Shipowners’ Association (CSA) as a Full Member from 1 January 2023. The CSA will join the ICS Board, which oversees the policy positions ICS presents on behalf of shipowners’ worldwide with the shipping industry’s global regulators, including the IMO and the International Labour Organization.

China plans to add clauses about reducing carbon emissions in the shipping industry to the Marine Environment Protection Law as it mulls over a draft amendment.

Chinese customs announced on Wednesday that China would revoke anti-COVID-19 measures, including nucleic acid testing, at ports of entry for all imported cold-chain foods and non-cold-chain items from January 8th, according to international media.

CNOOC Limited announced that Bozhong- Kenli oilfields onshore power project, located in Bohai Bay, commences operation successfully to supply electricity to 39 offshore production platforms.

The Port of Tianjin, Northern China, now features three wind turbines of over 100 meters high, intended for clean power generation, marking the completion of 15MW wind power project phase II of the Green Intelligent Energy Demonstration Program Section C.

RINA awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) of a first very large crude carrier (VLCC) vessel using an innovative propulsion arrangement that reduces the ship’s resistance by 5-10%. The vessel will meet the IMO targets for 2050 through the use of the ship’s fuel (LNG) combined with hydrogen produced onboard.

According to the Standard Club, after recent reports regarding the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions in China, the club is advised that there is currently no consistent quarantine policy implemented across all Chinese regions.

On 24 November 2022, the China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) of the Ministry of Transportation issued a new regulation on Energy Consumption Data and Carbon Intensity of Ships, which applies to both Chinese flagged ships and foreign ships of 400 gross tonnage and above for inbound/outbound Chinese ports.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) started the first committee meeting of a ‘special’ project to develop marine engines capable of utilising methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen as bunker fuel, on 28 November.

Shanghai Port, ranking first worldwide in container throughput for 12 consecutive years, is staging green transformation and becoming an increasingly clean, energy-saving and efficient modern hub port.