Tag: COSCO

Abu Dhabi Ports has announced the signing of a container terminal concession agreement with COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited - Abu Dhabi (CSPL SPV) container terminal operator.

China's COSCO Shipping Corporation has announced that it will ban all shark fin shipments, joining a growing number of transport and logistics companies standing up against a brutal trade that kills millions of sharks annually.

Local media reported on July 21st the first accident at the new Panama Canal few days before completing its first month of operation. Specifically, the COSCO's first vessel to transit the expanded canal made contact with the wall while traversing new Agua Clara locks.

COSCOCS, one of the largest container operators in the world, upgraded its service into the Port of Boston Sunday with a vessel that can carry more than 8,500 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), Conley’s largest cargo ship to date.

China COSCO Shipping Corporation has revealed its plans to send more cargo vessels on Arctic voyages through the Northeast Passage. The company has already send its first freighter to follow Arctic route while has scheduled two more to travel in separate voyages during August.

The $5 billion project of Panama’s waterway expansion officially opened, when the first vessel officially sailed through on Sunday, June 26. The Neopanamax vessel made the inaugural transit of the Expanded Panama Canal after a 14-day journey.

Cosco Shipping Panama, the first container ship to pass through the expanded Panama Canal on June 26th, set sail on Saturday, June 11th from the port of Piraeus, Greece, on its way to this Central American country.

China COSCO Shipping has won the draw for the first transit through the Expanded Panama Canal during the waterway's inauguration on Sunday, June 26. The shipping line's container vessel Andronikos will be making the inaugural transit. The vessel, which has a maximum capacity of 9,400 TEUs, is 8.25 meters in beam and 299.98 meters in length.

CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen Line and Orient Overseas Container Line signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a new Alliance enabling each of them to offer competitive products and comprehensive service networks covering the Asia-Europe, Asia-Mediterranean, Asia-Red Sea, Asia-Middle East, Trans-Pacific, Asia-North America East Coast, and Trans-Atlantic trades.

Greece is to sell its biggest port Piraeus Port Authority to shipping group China COSCO Shipping Corporation, marking the second major privatisation for the country since late last year.