Guangzhou has climbed to 11th place in the 2026 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index, up one spot from 2025. Having surpassed Tokyo last year, the city further advanced to ...

This aerial photo shows a cargo ship at a smart container terminal of Tianjin Port in North China's Tianjin, July 7, 2023.

Maritime shipping, the backbone of international commerce, is under stress resulting from several crises in different chokepoints across the globe. Chief among them is instability caused by the Houthi ...

New reports from the World Trade Organization and a Washington think tank showed how robust global trade could quickly be derailed by violence. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson covers international trade ...

For the 10th year in a row, Singapore ranks first in the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index (ISCDI) Report.Published jointly by the Chinese state news agency, Xinhua and ...

Rerouted shipping during Red Sea conflicts accidentally created a massive real-world experiment, letting scientists study how new low-sulfur marine fuels affect cloud formation. The sudden surge of ...

Blockchain technology, initially developed as the backbone of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, is now making waves in the shipping industry. With its ability to provide secure, transparent, and ...

In recent decades, global shipping—carrier of 80 per cent of world trade—has faced numerous threats that challenge the long-established right to freedom of navigation for all merchant ships. Piracy, ...