SINGAPORE - Singapore has been working with China to promote the Belt and Road Initiative, a senior Singaporean official said on Sunday. Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aiming at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of Silk Road. Addressing a plenary session at the ongoing Shangri-La Dialogue, Singaporean Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Sunday that his country has worked with China to jointly develop a new southern transport corridor that links southwest China's Chongqing to Singapore through China's southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Singapore, due to its geographical location, can serves as a strategic node on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, according to Ng. "This will connect the overland Silk Road Economic Belt with the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road," the defense minister said. Organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the three-day 16th Shangri-La Dialogue started on Friday. personalised rubber wristbandscustom wrist sweatbandspersonalized rubber braceletswristbands onlinecustom rubber wristbands
The photo shows the subsea support vessel Maersk Installer on Oct 16, 2017. [Photo/VCG] The shipyard of the COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province handed over the first subsea support vessel to its buyer, Danish Maersk Supply Service on Monday. Danish Maersk Supply Service, a unit of shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, has ordered four subsea support vessels, with options for two more, from the Chinese shipbuilder in 2014. Maersk Installer has become the first vessel of its kind exported by a Chinese shipbuilder. It is 137.6 meters long, 27 meters wide and 11 meters tall, having a deck area of 1,850 square meters. Its displacement reached 9,788 tons. The vessel allows operations within 3,000 meters under the water's surface at any sea areas, except ice-covered areas in Arctic and around the Antarctic.
