C919 is the nation's first self-developed trunk liner adopting international airworthiness standards and owning independent intellectual property rights, comparable to the Airbus A320 and the Boeing B737 series.

C919是中国首款采用国际适航标准并拥有自主知识产权的自主研发干线客机，可与空客A320和波音B737系列相媲美。

COSCO SHIPPING UK has long been involved in the UK's shipping industry, engaging in container ship ownership, liner agency operations, warehousing, distribution, customs clearance, and, increasingly, supply chain management.

中远海运英国公司长期参与英国航运业，从事集装箱船所有权、班轮代理业务、仓储、分销、清关，以及越来越多的供应链管理。

The C919 is China's first self-developed trunk liner with international airworthiness standards and owning independent intellectual property rights, comparable to the Airbus A320 and Boeing B737 series.

C919是中国首款自主研发的具有国际适航标准并拥有自主知识产权的干线客机，可与空客A320和波音B737系列相媲美。

That will make it a State-owned shipbuilding behemoth with enough corporate heft to dominate several industry segments like liquefied natural gas or LNG carriers, luxury cruise liners, icebreakers and offshore engineering equipment.

The new State-owned shipbuilding conglomerate now sets sail to dominate several industry segments relating to military vessels, liquefied natural gas or LNG carriers, luxury cruise liners, icebreakers and offshore engineering equipment among others.

Supported by 43,000 employees, CTG had 120.4 billion yuan in assets, 584 subsidiaries, two cruise liners, over 170 hotels and more than 200 duty-free stores across the world at the end of 2019.

After receiving the donation at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Morrison Sinvula, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, said with the second helping from the Chinese foundation, Botswana now has enough protective clothing for front liners.

For instance, in October last year, China State Shipbuilding Corp and China Shipbuilding Industry Corp merged to form China State Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd or CSSC, which will now set sail to dominate several industry segments relating to military vessels, liquefied natural gas or LNG carriers, luxury cruise liners, icebreakers and offshore engineering equipment among others.

Right now, CSSC, like a massive ocean liner, is performing delicate maneuvers, to adapt itself to the needs of the epidemic-stricken nation.

Dream Cruises, a luxury cruise liner created in 2016 for Asian sourced markets, has temporarily suspended its operation in the Chinese mainland due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, sources with the company said.

Dong Liwan, a professor of shipbuilding at the Shanghai Maritime University, said the merger will bring advantages for the country to enhance its global competitiveness because Chinese players want to complete on the global stage, especially in the area of military vessels, liquefied natural gas carriers, luxury cruise liners, icebreakers, and offshore engineering equipment among others.

Currently, the group is operating 174 container liner routes (1.61 million TEUs) in countries and regions related to the BRI, accounting for 58 percent of COSCO Shipping's total container capacity.

[Photo/Xinhua]Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co Ltd will start the construction of the nation's first self-made cruise liner in 2019 after completing a year-long overhaul of a shipyard.

The number of container liner routes between Muara Port and the surrounding ports has increased from six to 10, and cargo trade has become more convenient and efficient, greatly accelerating the efficiency of international logistics.

Located at the mouth of the Pearl River, Nansha now has a total of 154 international ocean liner routes, making it one of the major global ocean shipping centers in the world.

A new container liner route linking Taicang in East China's Jiangsu province and Rotterdam in the Netherlands was launched on Sunday, according to the Yangtze River Pilotage Center.

The German vessel WIKING is the first container ship to be put into operation on the liner route between Taicang and Rotterdam.

In order to maintain the stability of its supply chain, Lidl has purchased and leased four large container liners to operate the China-Europe line, stopping at important ports of call in China, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands.

While incorporating them into priority goods categories in transportation, local governments should streamline logistics procedures to reduce the waiting time for berths on international liners, and ensure the transport of important parts, devices and products.

Wusongkou is also the terminal where vessels from major cruise liners such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian have docked since 2011.

The new plan will help meet the higher requirement for promoting the development of combined sea-rail transportation, international liner services, cross-border freight train services and innovative logistics models, he said.

To ease container shortage and continuous increase of freight charges in the international shipping market, China has worked with relevant parties to substantially increase the shipping space of major liner companies.

Nearly one-third of all containers passing through the Port of Hamburg have China as their destination or origin, and a total of 15 liner services connect Hamburg with all major Chinese ports, Mattern said.

The Ministry of Transport will work with relevant parties to guide international liner companies to continuously increase shipping capacity on routes from the Chinese mainland, improve container turnover efficiency, and make sure international logistics supply chain is stable and smooth, Zhao added.

According to Lin, about 60 percent of the Chinese vessels from China to Europe and Africa, as well as more than 95 percent of regular liners between China and Europe cross the canal during their voyages, in an attempt to avoid the much longer trip around the southern tip of Africa.

"Wharf enterprises will be able to arrange the connections between international liners and inland barges more reasonably, reducing the time of halts at cargo ports, cut the average storage period from five to seven days to less than two days, greatly improving the turnover efficiency of wharfs and containers," he said.

Chinese shipyards have made significant strides in advancing their manufacturing technologies, particularly in high value-added segments, they said, adding that the country has demonstrated its capability in building various types of vessels — such as mega container ships, cruise liners and car carriers — and adopted green fuels, seizing more market share than its South Korean and Japanese rivals.

The world's number one container liner company is one of the company's clients and about 80 percent of the company's orders are from overseas, said Li Hao, director of international operation department of Guangzhou Shipyard International Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Co Ltd. More than 60 percent of the company's existing orders are high-tech, high value-added methanol dual fuel or LNG dual fuel new green ship types, which can reduce emissions of carbon, nitrogen oxides and sulfur thus greatly reducing environmental pollution, the report said.

The cruise liner will also operate a route to discover some smaller Eastern European cities next year.

Domestic cruise liner Adora Cruises currently operates an itinerary that departs from Tianjin to Japan's Fukuoka and South Korea's Jeju Island.

Cruise liners set to sail for Japan in the next few months are keeping their fingers crossed after the neighboring country started discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean on Thursday.

This has led to a surge in demand for domestic cruises, with many travel agencies and cruise liners reporting that tickets this year have already sold out, said Jiang Yiyi, deputy head of the School of Leisure Sports and Tourism at Beijing Sport University.

The first of the colossal cruise liners will be 323.6 meters long, 37.2 meters wide and 72 meters tall, roughly the height of a 25-story residential building.

"Promoting the in-depth integration of transportation and tourism and enriching the products of the Xisha passenger liners can better serve the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port," said Wang Xianjin, vice-president and chief engineer of the China Academy of Transportation Sciences, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Transport.

Liu said the revitalization plan, detailed in 30 items, applies to seven types of tourism-related companies registered in Hainan and businesses including travel agencies, tourist attractions, hotels and homestays, cruise liners and yachts, golf resorts and leading rural tourism spots.

Chinese leisure liners go full steam ahead, forge JVs, create world-class travel ecosystemThe multibillion-dollar Chinese cruise market is evolving rapidly, and a new vista is on the horizon, promising sustained development, huge investments, jobs and significant economic activity, in line with the ongoing consumption upgrade.

Cruise liner tours have become quite popular in southern China as the traditional Spring Festival holiday approaches.

The vessel will depart from the Shekou cruise liner homeport in Shenzhen.

Since opening in 2016, the port has welcomed 17 cruise liners from around the world and received about 1.35 million tourists.

"We could spend days talking about the hardships of the cruise liner construction process.

In 2016, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd abandoned its ambition to build European cruise liners and shifted to smaller ferries and other medium-sized passenger ships due to cost overruns and delays in the construction of two 100,000-ton class cruise liners for Europe's Carnival Corp, Reuters reported.

The first cruise liner to be built in the Chinese mainland entered the production phase on Friday, with the 135,500-metric-ton Vista-class vessel expected to showcase China's cutting-edge prowess in shipbuilding technologies, experts said.

The index, which measures liner shipping connectivity, port calls and turnaround time in the world's container ports, is set at 100 for the best-connected port in 2006, which was Hong Kong, China.

UNCTAD's port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index dataset enables businesses and governments to determine maritime transport trends and their ports' positions compared to others.

Although the country's cruise industry saw a dip in liner and passenger numbers last year, April bookings show Chinese travelers still have an appetite for cruise holidays, Liu explains.

The Xiamen International Cruise Terminal in southeastern Fujian province received 32 cruise liner visits over the first three months of this year, an increase of 433 percent compared with the same period last year, the Transport Ministry reports.

Although the number of cruise liners berthing at the country's home ports has dipped in recent years, passenger numbers are still rising as larger vessels service the market, the report says.

The Shanghai government has plans in place to develop a cruise industry chain over the Yangtze River Delta region by 2022, while the Guangzhou government has earmarked 30 million yuan ($4.47 million) annually to support cruise development and a newly proposed global cruise liner distribution, shipbuilding and repair center.

A purpose-built cruise liner that was renovated for the luxury Asian and Chinese market was launched at the Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal in mid-April.

Named Explorer Dream, the cruise liner belongs to Dream Cruises' fleet under Genting Cruise Lines, and is the first of its kind in eastern China.

Sailing from its home port of Shanghai, the cruise liner will take guests to popular destinations in Japan, offering a range of three-to six-night itineraries, including three-night trips to Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, and two-night round-trips to Okinawa.

Genoa-headquartered Costa Cruises is due to put its Costa Venezia liner - which was designed and built especially for the Chinese market - into operation later this year, ahead of another new cruise liner scheduled to launch in 2020.

Azerbaijan Airlines operates direct flights from Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Beijing Capital Airport by comfortable Boeing 767-300 liners.

"More tourists are expected to reach China by ship from now on - specifically cruise liners.

"More and more tourists are expected to reach China by cruise liners from now on.

Spanning modernization and upgrades of ports to home-built ships, purchase of ocean liners, multimodal transport mechanisms and longer duration visa-free visits to certain Chinese mainland areas in the neighborhood of ports, the big-ticket measures will seek to monetize multibillion-dollar opportunities.

The Associated Press reported that fences were being installed at an 11-acre site at the Port of Oakland, California, as US federal and state authorities prepared flights and buses to take the more than 2,000 passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise liner to military bases or their home countries for a 14-day quarantine.

The statement said that the passenger clearance of water ports will gradually resume and allow the liner passengers to exit and entry through water ports that meet relevant requirements.