In response to the intense climate change, Transport Canada aims to address the environmental impact of marine shipping through its Green Shipping Corridors Program.

"Canadians across the country rely on marine shipping to deliver products we use every day in an affordable, safe, environmentally friendly, and efficient way. The projects will grow a strong economy and get people the goods they need while protecting our environment," stated Pablo Rodriguez, Canada's Minister of Transport.

Vance Badawey, the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport and MP for Niagara Centre, announced US$1.2 million in funding for 14 projects under the Clean Vessel Demonstration stream of the Green Shipping Corridor Program.

This investment is expected to accelerate the development of advanced clean ships, support shore power technology and emphasize the use of low-emission and low-noise vessels at ports.

Through initiatives like the Green Shipping Corridor Program, Transport Canada is collaborating with indigenous communities, government bodies, industry, and environmental groups to protect the environment and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

"Our Government is committed to protecting and preserving the environment from coast to coast to coast. The Clean Vessel Demonstration Stream will increase readiness by using leading-edge low and zero-emission vessel technologies. It will help address potential barriers to the deployment of clean vessel innovations in Canada and build the capacity of Canadian industry to adopt decarbonization solutions for their vessels, advancing our agenda for a cleaner and greener future in Canada," stated Vance Badawey, parliamentary secretary to the minister of Transport.

An air cargo route has linked Guiyang and the Russian capital since last Saturday, the administration of Guizhou Shuanglong Airport Economic Zone said.

The airplane delivers king crabs and other seafood from Moscow to Guiyang, and locally produced products on the way back. The volume of traffic on the new route is expected to reach 15 thousand tons per year.

Earlier, three flights connecting Guiyang with the Indian cities of Kolkata, Delhi and Pakistan's Karachi were launched as part of international air cargo transportation.

A union proposal seeking to blunt China’s growing dominance in the maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors is finding bipartisan support among U.S. Congressional lawmakers, based on remarks made at a recent U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing.

The Congressional hearing, as well as the unions’ petition before the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), reflect a growing concern among lawmakers and the private sector that China’s exponential growth in shipbuilding and in producing ship-to-shore cranes and shipping containers ultimately threatens U.S. national security.

Unions had petitioned USTR in March, arguing that the Chinese government “has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars” toward bolstering its shipbuilding industry so that now China dominates the world’s production of commercial vessels while the U.S.’s share is only 1%. The unions are pressing the USTR to take action against China’s practices under Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 by enforcing measures such as assessing a port fee on Chinese-built ships that dock at a U.S. port and creating a shipbuilding revitalization fund.

Congressional lawmakers affirmed the unions’ request at the June 26 hearing held by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and entitled “From High Tech to Heavy Steel: Combatting the PRC’s Strategy to Dominate Semiconductors, Shipbuilding and Drones.”

Boeing opens new tab is resuming widebody jet deliveries to China which were halted in recent weeks due to a Chinese regulatory review, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Orders of widebody 777 and 787 planes are expected to be delivered in the coming days, the source said. Deliveries of Boeing's 737 MAX are set to resume as early as next month, the source said.

The development is a boost to Boeing, which had flagged the delay to investors after Reuters first reported in May that the company's plane deliveries to China had been temporarily halted. The halt was due to a review by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) of batteries contained in the 25-hour cockpit voice recorder.

President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra of the Republic of Peru will pay a state visit to China from June 25 to 29 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Monday.

"This is President Boluarte's first state visit to China, and President Xi will hold talks with President Boluarte," Mao Ning, another spokesperson of the ministry, told a press briefing on the same day.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, will meet with Boluarte respectively, Mao said.

Noting that Peru is an important country in Latin America, Mao said China has established a comprehensive strategic partnership with Peru.

Since the two countries established diplomatic ties more than half a century ago, bilateral relations have made steady progress and fruitful results of cooperation have been achieved in various fields, bringing tangible benefits to the two peoples, Mao said.

Through this visit, China hopes to solidify political mutual trust with Peru, enhance mutually beneficial and pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and deliver more outcomes of China-Peru comprehensive strategic partnership to benefit the two peoples more, Mao added