Bloomberg Shipping companies are threatening to scrap their Pakistan services after the South Asian country increased tariffs at its largest port in a blow to an industry that is already grappling with global overcapacity and low freight rates. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. is “seriously considering” dropping deployment of larger vessels in Pakistan, the South Korean company wrote in a ...

  Bloomberg The Philippines is training its sight on billions of dollars of investment from the Middle East. The Philippine Economic Zone Authority, which oversees hundreds of industrial parks offering tax perks, is identifying sites that can stock Qatar’s oil reserves and land that can be planted with crops for export to the United Arab Emirates after receiving proposals, Director ...

  Bloomberg A South Korean shipping company that filed for bankruptcy protection five years ago emerged as the surprise winning bidder for some assets of the collapsed Hanjin Shipping Co., pipping a bigger rival that is undergoing a creditor-led debt revamp. Korea Line Corp., the nation’s second-largest bulk carrier, beat Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. to be the preferred bidder for ...