The number of subscribers to the Xiaolingrong urban wireless service increased 70 per cent in the first five months of 2003, reported the Ministry of Information Industry's People's Posts and Telecommunications News. By the end of May there were 20m subscribers. of which China Telecom accounted for 1 6m and China Netcom the rest. Xiaolingtong […]
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China's Minister of Information Industry has been appointed to head the State Council's 'Informatisation Office', a body that is responsible for setting policy on telecoms and the internet. The appointment of Wang Xudong represents a consolidation of control over the IT sector and is likely to be wel-comed by foreign investors in the telecoms industry […]
China Ocean Shipping Co (Cosco) has awarded Japanese yard Imabari a US$200m contract to build three 5.500 ten container ships. Shipyards in China and South Korea were said to be unable to meet Cosco 5 requirement of delivering the ships by 2005. While the company has bought container ships from Japan before. it has recently […]
China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) extended its newly launched Asia/Mediterranean service to include the Asia/US west coast trade from mid-July in order to extract greater potential from its new transhipment business in Salalah, Oman. A new pendulum service, so named because it has links to more than one important container market, has been set tip […]
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Progress at Yangshan port
Construction of the Yangshan deepwater port will soon accelerate so that the first phase of the project can be operational by 2005, reported Shanghai Daily. The port will serve Shanghai but will actually be located on two islands in neighbouring Zhejiang province. The first phase will comprise five berths and a 32km bridge that will […]