An Evergreen ship at the Port of Tacoma
Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corp plans to expand its fleet to cope with a recovery in container shipping since the end of the global economic crisis, a newspaper said Tuesday. Evergreen, the world’s fourth-largest maritime shipping company, plans to buy at least a dozen vessels that can carry [...]
North German shipowners control 35 per cent of the world’s container vessels, managing many of the ships that facilitated China’s export boom of the past decade. They deal with Taiwanese or Chilean shipping lines or Korean shipyards as readily as Thomas Buddenbrook dealt with trading partners across the Baltic in Riga. As a result, northern [...]
Maersk Line is planning to have at least one of its vessels registered in Taiwan to get in on the booming direct shipping services across the Taiwan Strait, a Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) official said yesterday. This will make Maersk the first foreign shipping company to register in the country. The cross-strait route, [...]
A delegation of Taiwanese agriculture officials has signed a joint-agreement to pursue the importation of California wheat, the California Wheat Commission announced today. The news is significant because it opens the door for the state’s wheat growers to boost international sales of its crop, said Robert Falconer, Executive Director of the commission. “These international trade [...]