Malaysia's exports slipped 2.9% year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM79.2 billion in August 2020 as external sales of petroleum products, liquefied...

MTT Shipping Sdn. Bhd. has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 QMS and ISO 45001:2018 OHS certification, an internationally recognised standard...

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has introduced several measures and strategies, including tax exemption and...

Malaysia’s industrial production index (IPI) returned to positive growth of 1.2% in July 2020 for the first time since February. In a...

Containerships The container shipping fleet has grown by 1.6% since the start of the year, reaching a total capacity of 23.2 million TEU....

Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to maintain the overnight policy rate (OPR) at 1.75%, with the...

The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) welcomes a proposal by France’s MEDEF International to ink a memorandum of...

Export earnings from commodity products in the first six months of this year amounted to RM63.7 billion or 14.2 per cent of the country’s...

Expansion works will begin on Sapangar Bay Container Port in Malaysia this year, resulting in the facility’s annual capacity more than...

There’s hardly anyone buying new ships, with orders plunging to a 20-year low due to a potent combination of uncertainty over...

Containerships with a total cargo carrying capacity of 5.3 million TEU are now fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber) to...

Global trade is on course to recover more quickly from the coronavirus pandemic than after the 2008 financial crisis, according to...

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Kinabalu Pink Ribbon (KPR), the association completed their fifth climb to the highest mountain in...

Malaysia's exports in July 2020 increased 3.1% to RM92.53 billion from that in July 2019, the highest export value ever recorded for the...

MIDF Amanah Investment Bank Bhd has revised Malaysia's export growth forecast upward to -3.5 percent year-on-year (YoY) from -8.3 percent...

The latest survey by Alphaliner shows that some 90 containerships, equating to over 600,000 TEU of capacity, have found employment in the...

Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 17.1% in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20) mainly due to the movement control order...

The recovery in the Malaysian manufacturing sector continued in July, according to the headline IHS Markit Malaysia Manufacturing...

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said Malaysia’s trade with the US in January to June 2020 registered an increase...

Given the unprecedented Movement Control Order (MCO) to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, it is a foregone conclusion that Bank Negara...