Cichen Shen is the APAC Editor at Informa. With a focus on supply chain and logistics, energy policy, and regional interests, Cichen covers a wide range of topics including renewable energy, climate policy, and logistics technology across the Asia-Pacific region. Cichen's insights and expertise have also been featured in Lloyd's List.
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Cichen Shen's articles predominantly focus on the transportation and logistics industry, with an emphasis on shipping, maritime industry, international trade, and China. Given this coverage area, pitches should offer insights related to these sectors such as innovative trends in international trade or impactful developments within the Chinese transportation and logistics space.
As Cichen often covers press releases and private sector announcements in the transportation and logistics industry without a specified geographic focus, experts or companies within these fields can provide valuable contributions to her reporting. Additionally, given their expertise in specific areas of interest like shipping routes or logistical challenges faced by multinational corporations would likely be well-received for potential interview opportunities.
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Two Cosco VLCCs carrying Saudi crude have transited Bab el-Mandeb after securing Houthi clearance, with a third China Merchants tanker now heading south
By: Cichen Shen
Cosco Shipping and China Merchants are withdrawing from Red Sea trade, prioritising safety over expected diplomatic privileges
By: Matthew Rajendra, Cichen Shen
Weekly tanker transits through Hormuz have fallen 80% since the US-Iran ceasefire collapsed, with inbound VLCC arrivals down to a single vessel
Containership transits through the Bab el Mandeb remained stable last week, with CMA CGM, Maersk and Wan Hai among carriers maintaining trans-Suez sailings
By: Cichen Shen, Ece Göksedef
Facing the Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, VLCCs loading at Yanbu are lightening their cargoes to slip through the Suez Canal instead of running the Bab el Mandeb
SeaLead entered voluntary liquidation, weeks after the US added the carrier to its sanctions list for links to an Iranian adviser's son
By: Cichen Shen
China captured 82% of global ship orders by dwt in the first half of 2026, up from 69% last year, with new yards ‘springing up like mushrooms'
Panstar Group's 2,800 teu vessel set to depart Busan on August 22 for Korea's first Arctic container voyage to Europe
Chief executive Fruergaard expects disruption to be permanent, with three big chokepoints compromised simultaneously and buyers abandoning lean supply chains for resilience
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continues despite the collapse of the US-Iran ceasefire, with 30 mainstream transits recorded last week, including 19 VLCC movements
