South Korea Raises Typhoon-alert; New Pacific System May Impact Mexico and U.S

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  • After an eerily quiet August, the tropics from Atlantic to Pacific are now looking a lot more like one would expect for early September.
  • There’s a tropical storm and a hurricane in the Atlantic, a strong typhoon headed toward a high-impact encounter with South Korea, and a new depression in the East Pacific.
  • Its likely to bring heavy rain to the Baja Peninsula and perhaps even some much-needed showers to parts of Southern California.

A recent news article published in the Yale Climate...

https://mfame.guru/south-korea-raises-typhoon-alert-new-pacific-system-may-impact-mexico-and-u-s/

CMA CGM and SIPG complete China’s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering

The French shipping group CMA CGM and the Chinese port operator Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) have achieved China’s first bonded LNG SIMOPS (simultaneous operations) bunkering with the 15,000 TEU CMA CGM Symi being refueled with LNG at Yangshan Port in Shanghai on 15 March.

Haigang Weilai, a new 20,000 m3 LNG bunker barge deployed by SIPG provided CMA CGM SYMI with LNG by means of a ship-to-ship transfer, while the container ship carried out cargo operations simultaneously.

“With the...

https://container-news.com/cma-cgm-and-sipg-complete-chinas-first-ship-to-ship-lng-bunkering/

China issues guidelines for foreign liner operators to carry boxes transshipped from Yangshan port

China has recently issued detailed implementation guidelines for international container liner companies to operate coastal shipping services to and from Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai and Yangshan deep water ports.

It allowed non-five-star international voyage ships of the liner companies to carry foreign trade containers to and from the Yangshan Port to promote the construction of the Shanghai International Shipping Center and the Lingang New Area of ​​China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade...

https://container-news.com/china-issues-guidelines-for-foreign-liner-operators-to-carry-boxes-transshipped-from-yangshan-port/

SIPG and THE Alliance test fast-track container processing at Yangshan

Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) and THE Alliance have entered into an agreement to test out onshore container drop-offs for cargoes bound for Yangshan Deepwater Port, which is farther from Shanghai.

Opened in 2005, Yangshan port is built on the islands of Greater and Lesser Yangshan, which are actually part of Zhejiang province, but is administered by SIPG to facilitate Shanghai’s throughput growth.

Beginning 1 July 2020, the three-month pilot scheme will see containers that are meant to...

https://container-news.com/sipg-and-the-alliance-test-fast-track-container-processing-at-yangshan/

Operations at key Shanghai port back to pre-COVID-19 levels

Throughput at Shanghai’s Yangshan Deepwater Port, China’s single largest container processing facility, is nearing pre-COVID-19 levels.

Yangshan Port said that in the last week, it cleared 52,000TEU a day on average, nearly 95% of levels in pre-COVID-19 days.

In addition, on 4 March 2020, 19 ships run by mainline operators berthed at its premises for loading and unloading. The vessels included six ultra-large container ships that can each carry at least 18,000TEU. The ships will then sail on to...

https://container-news.com/operations-at-key-shanghai-port-back-to-pre-covid-19-levels/