Yangtze River

Electric Cargo Ship Successfully Completes Trails in Yangtze River

  • China has tested its homegrown electric cargo ship.
  • It has a load capacity of 1,000 metric tons.
  • It was tested at the Yangtze River section in Changzhou, east China.
  • The vessel is powered by a 1,458 kWh lithium battery and supercapacitor
  • It is equivalent to 40 electric cars and can replace over 20 metric tons of diesel if it conducts 150 voyages.

According to an article published in Xinhuanet, a homegrown electric cargo ship with a load capacity of 1,000 metric tons successfully tested the...

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Yangtze River Waterway Renovation Underway for Perennial Access

Waterway renovation underway on the Yangtze River to ensure large ships’ perennial access to Chongqing, reports XinhuaNet.

Waterway renovation project 

A waterway renovation project has begun on the Yangtze River to enable ships of up to 5,000 tonnes to reach southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality all year round, the municipal reform and development commission said.

Reason for renovation

Heavy tonnage ships have limited access to the Chongqing section of the Yangtze due to falling water levels...

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Cargo throughput on Yangtze River surges

Major ports on China’s largest river the Yangtze posted a total throughput of 1.5 billion tonnes in the first half year (H1), up 8 percent year on year.

The east-west inland waterway is regarded as the country’s “golden shipping route.”

China’s heavy investment to smooth out the deep-water channel of the lower stream of the river has taken effect with the throughput of standard containers shipped via the river in H1 topping 9.4 million TEU, up 5.3 percent year on year.

The cargo throughput via the...

https://container-news.com/cargo-throughput-yangtze-river-surges/

Container Ship Collides With Berthed Greek Bulk Carrier in the Yangtze River

Container Ship YU HANG 18 went out of control while passing Zhenjiang, Yangtze River, upstream from Shanghai and collided with berthed bulk carrier ODIGITRIA, reports ARX Maritime.

What happened?

Chinese Container Ship, YU HANG 18 collided with the Marshall-Islands flagged Bulk Carrier, ODIGITRIA, in the evening of July the 6th, while transiting through Yangtze, River, China, at approximately 18:00, LT near Zhenjiang.

The YU HANG 18 had been carrying 160 containers at the time, charged with...

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China upgrades boxships on Yangtze River

China has put a new container ship with a capacity of 1,140 standard containers into service on the country’s longest river, the Yangtze, as part of an upgrade of vessels on the waterway.

The ship was commissioned to go on route between the port of Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, to the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai on the river’s estuary, on Friday. The route is about 1,000 km long.

The Yangtze is the world’s busiest waterway. More than 2.3 billion tonnes of cargo are...

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