About Xinde Marine News

Xinde Marine News

Xinde Marine News (Chinese: 信德海事网, Xinde Haishi Wang; its English site also styles it Xinde Maritime News) is a Dalian-based maritime information and consulting service platform. From the port city of Dalian in Liaoning province — one of northern China's great shipbuilding and shipping centres — it publishes shipping news in Chinese and English at xindemarinenews.com, covering shipbuilding, ports and terminals, shipping markets, green shipping, maritime safety, seafarers and maritime policy. Alongside publishing, it provides maritime information consulting services to shipping companies, ports and related businesses, organises and co-hosts industry forums and seminars, and conducts on-the-record interviews with international shipping figures — a hybrid of trade newspaper, data-and-analysis service and industry meeting place, with a particular focus on China's shipping industry.

Dalian base and bilingual operation

Xinde's contact details, published on its own articles, place it in Dalian with a Dalian (0411) telephone line, a commercial address at market@xindemarine.com and an editorial address at media@xindemarine.com — the working contacts of a commercial newsroom, not a hobby blog. Dalian is a deliberate home: the city hosts major shipyards including the Hengli Heavy Industry complex whose revival Xinde has covered closely, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation's yards, a large container port and maritime universities, placing the newsroom inside the industry it reports.

The bilingual operation is substantive in both directions. The Chinese service serves the domestic industry; the English service — organised under sections such as Shipbuilding, Ports & Terminals, Green Shipping and Maritime Safety — translates China's shipping story for the international market and brings global developments to Chinese readers. A Greek shipowner's remarks in Dalian, a strike wave across world ports, and a Shanghai shipping forum all receive the same treatment: reported, contextualised and filed for a professional readership.

Shipbuilding coverage

Shipbuilding is a signature beat, reflecting China's position as the world's largest shipbuilding nation and Dalian's place within it. Xinde's English front page leads routinely with newbuilding orders: container ship programmes at Chinese yards for European owners, gas carrier orders, and the strategies behind resale contracts and repeat orders. A representative October 2026 story reported a European owner's four 3,700-TEU containerships at CSSC Chengxi, cross-referencing shipbroking reports, earlier orders and market sources to establish the buyer's identity where the contracting parties had not confirmed it — the source-triangulation work that distinguishes trade journalism from press-release republication. Another examined why owners keep ordering at Hengli, pairing fleet and capacity data with the yard's history.

Coverage at that level of contractual detail — hull sizes, reefer capacity, reported prices, delivery windows — serves readers who build, buy, finance and compete with ships, and it requires a newsroom fluent in the commercial vocabulary of the industry.

Ports, terminals and shipping markets

The Ports & Terminals section tracks the infrastructure of trade: port groups' strategies, terminal fuels, dock labour disputes and throughput politics worldwide, from Los Angeles and Long Beach's fuel choices to global dockworker mobilisation. Market coverage extends to container freight indices and their interpretation — Xinde carries analysis and data such as container freight index commentary, per its service description — and to the earnings and strategy of the great shipping groups, Chinese and foreign, whose results move the market.

Its report of COSCO SHIPPING's chairman addressing the 2026 North Bund International Shipping Forum in Shanghai illustrates the register: four structural shifts in global shipping identified from a keynote, contributions from port and shipowning leaders, and the labour and decarbonisation questions running through the industry, summarised for professionals who were not in the room among the forum's 500 participants.

Green shipping and maritime safety

Two standing sections mark the industry’s transition agenda. Green Shipping covers alternative fuels — LNG, methanol, ammonia, ethanol bunkering — green corridor agreements between ports such as Shanghai–Hamburg and Shanghai–Melbourne, and China's green marine fuel certification framework. Maritime Safety covers casualties and regulation with the same news discipline. These are not lifestyle supplements: fuel choice is now the largest capital decision in shipping, and a Dalian platform that tracks Chinese yards' dual-fuel orderbooks alongside global fuel infrastructure is reporting the industry's central commercial story.

Seafarers and the human side of shipping

Xinde gives unusual prominence to seafarers for a trade platform. In June 2022 it co-hosted, with Dalian Guohe Maritime, a Career Development Seminar for Chinese Seafarers in Dalian for the International Day of the Seafarer, attended by more than 3,000 online participants; speakers addressed how green and smart shipping will reshape seafaring careers — skills for new fuels, digitalisation, and the industry's just-transition commitments. Xinde also relays international seafarer policy coverage, such as the Seafarer 2050 summit in Manila, to its Chinese audience. In an industry where China's seafarer workforce is among the world's largest, that coverage serves a readership of officers, crewing companies and maritime academies as well as shipowners.

Forums, interviews and industry events

Events are a documented part of the business going back years: as early as October 2018, Xinde Marine News co-organised an International Ship Management and Technology Forum in Dalian with China Shipping Service (CNSS). The interview franchise is its most visible current format: at the Hengli Green Ship Development Conference in Dalian in October 2026, Xinde interviewed Greek shipping magnate George Procopiou, founder of Dynacom Tankers Management, on camera about two decades of cooperation with Chinese yards and his group's 69 vessel orders at Hengli — content the platform then distributed internationally through its own site and social channels, credited to named reporters and producers. Trade media that can secure and produce such interviews occupies a recognised position inside its industry's conversation.

Consulting and information services

Publishing is only half the stated business. Xinde describes itself as a maritime information and consulting service platform, providing maritime information consulting to shipping companies, ports and related businesses. That places it in the directory's agency category: clients buy not only news but structured intelligence about Chinese and global shipping — markets, ports, shipbuilding capacity and policy — assembled by a team whose daily reporting keeps the knowledge current. The commercial contact channel published on every article is the front door for that work.

Role in China's maritime media

China's shipping industry is the world's largest by several measures — shipbuilding output, port throughput, fleet growth — yet English-language reporting produced inside China about it remains scarce. Xinde Marine News occupies that niche from Dalian: a Chinese platform, professionally staffed, publishing in both languages, combining news, market commentary, data references, consulting and events. For international readers it is a primary-source window on Chinese shipbuilding and ports; for Chinese readers it is a trade paper of record for their own industry.

The platform's presentation reinforces the professional positioning. Its English homepage organises the news flow under standing sections — shipbuilding, ports and terminals, green shipping and maritime safety among them — with an activities strand for the events it covers and hosts, and its articles carry named commercial and editorial contacts rather than anonymous posting. Stories are reported with the specifics working readers check first: vessel sizes in TEU and deadweight, yard and owner names, reported contract values, delivery windows and the identity of the broking or market sources behind figures that the contracting parties have not confirmed. That discipline, applied daily in two languages, is what separates an industry information service from a news aggregator.

Access and official website

Xinde Marine News's official website is xindemarinenews.com, with Chinese and English services; commercial enquiries go to market@xindemarine.com and editorial contact to media@xindemarine.com, as published on the site. For this directory, Xinde Marine News is recorded as a Dalian, Liaoning, China maritime information and consulting agency.