There is no
gulf between my son and me.
我和我儿子之间没有鸿沟。
The
gulf extends south.
海湾向南方延伸。
Eric demonstrated the
gulf between the skills job seekers have and the skills employers need.
埃里克解释了找工作的人所具备的技能和雇主们所需要的之间的差距。
The two parties signed a 27-year agreement, under which China will purchase 4 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a year from the Gulf Arab state.
双方签署了一项为期27年的协议，根据该协议，中国将每年从这个海湾阿拉伯国家购买400万公吨液化天然气。
A major port for Egypt, the Persian Gulf and Asia, Ain Sokhna Port is located at the south of the entrance to the Suez Canal, about 120 kilometers east of Cairo.
艾因索赫纳港是埃及、波斯湾和亚洲的主要港口，位于苏伊士运河入口以南，开罗以东约120公里。
The country's first offshore shale oil exploration well Weiye-1, located at the southwestern trough of Beibu Gulf Basin in the South China Sea, tested daily production of 20 cubic meters of oil and 1,589 cubic meters of natural gas, said the country's top offshore oil and gas driller on Thursday in a release.
中国顶级海上油气钻探公司周四在一份新闻稿中表示，位于南海北部湾盆地西南槽的中国第一口海上页岩油探井卫一号测试了20立方米石油和1589立方米天然气的日产量。
Beibu Gulf Basin holds around 1.2 billion metric tons of prospective shale oil resources with broad prospects for future exploration, it said.
报告称，北部湾盆地拥有约12亿吨潜在页岩油资源，未来勘探前景广阔。
Ghana's new container terminal located in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea has placed Ghana in a more competitive position as it is able to accommodate larger vessels, thus unlocking huge trading opportunities within the region and with the rest of the world.
With production contribution of new projects including Egina oilfield in Nigeria and Appomattox oilfield in the US Gulf of Mexico, overseas production increased by 9.0 percent year-over-year to 44.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, it said.
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries, being the world's major oil suppliers, are relatively wealthier, Du said.
In 2017, Amazon acquired the largest local e-commerce platform Souq to speed up its expansion in the Gulf region.
In April 2019, Jollypay, the online payment arm of Jollychic, reached an agreement with Saudi Post to carry out in-depth cooperation in mobile payments, in the hope of building a cash-free society in the Gulf region.
Now, there are a total of 10 carriers including Xiamen Airlines, Tianjin Airlines, Chengdu Airlines, China Express, Colorful Guizhou Airlines, and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines that operate regional aircraft, according to aviation industry reports.
A Saudi and Gulf consortium is seeking to buy luxury retailer Barneys New York Inc, Saudi financial news website Maaal reported on Tuesday.
Separately, Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News reported that the consortium had teamed up with Solitaire Partners to make a bid for Barneys worth in the "area of $270 million".
They could bring in an additional investor if the bid is successful, Gulf News reported.
Eight airlines, including China Southern Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Tianjin Airlines, Colorful Guizhou Airlines and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines, operate 105 Embraer commercial aircraft in China and Mongolia.
Situated in Queensland state's Gulf of Carpentaria, the area around the New Century Resources mine site is a vast and remote region.
Gulf airline Emirates has said it expects the first plane in June 2020.
China's smartphone giant OPPO announced on Tuesday a new partnership with the United Arab Emirates(UAE)-based Lulu Hypermarket, one of the biggest retailers across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Under the MoU, SkyCargo and Cainiao will work closely to manage e-commerce shipments in the Middle East and neighboring regions via Dubai, the biggest trade and logistics hub in the Gulf Arab region.
About 300,000 Chinese nationals live in the UAE, while over 4,000 Chinese businesses operate in the Gulf state.
The $45-billion EEC project, covering Thailand's three eastern provinces near the Gulf of Thailand, is aimed at attracting high-tech investment as part of the government's efforts to boost growth.
The know-how and innovation being deployed in the South China Sea, which was granted first prize in this year's National Science and Technology Awards, has been successfully applied to the HTHP gas fields at home and abroad, including eight HTHP gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico, seven in Europe's North Sea and 18 in Iraq, said Li Yanjun, chief executive engineer of HTHP drilling and completion of CNOOC's Zhanjiang branch.
"This environment makes the South China Sea one of the most demanding of all offshore oil and gas exploration territories, along with the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
The EEC straddles three eastern provinces of Thailand off the coast of the Gulf of Thailand – Chonburi, Rayong and Chachoengsao – and spans 13,285 square kilometers.
SINGAPORE－China's State oil major Sinopec is evaluating two projects in the United States that could boost Gulf Coast crude oil exports and also expand storage facilities in the Caribbean, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, with US President Donald Trump set to visit Beijing next week.
The trio is mulling building a pipeline to move shale oil from the Permian basin in Texas to the US Gulf Coast for export, the people said.
Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is connected since March 2015 through a direct flight to Dubai by the Gulf Arab emirate's government-controlled Emirates Airline.
After Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Gulf coast of Texas on August 25, PICA quickly set up an emergency response team (ERT) that consisted of six executives and lawyers to monitor the situation, he said.
Zhang also told Xinhua that as the flood waters closed several oil refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, crude prices and shipping costs of the company need to be reassessed.
As part of the deal, they will jointly own and operate a truck, rail and barge terminal in Cahokia, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, the main pipeline that supplies exporters along the US Gulf Coast with corn and soybeans.
It agreed with outline plans with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the League of Arab States, the African Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority.
Dubai is the second destination for Nepal's fast growing carrier in the Gulf countries after starting its first-ever scheduled flight operations flying directly to Doha, Qatar on May 31, 2016.
Duggan joined ABB in Sweden in 1984, and has held leadership positions in many of ABB's businesses in Europe, Asia and the Gulf.
China and member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are keen to move forward quickly on closing the China-GCC free trade agreement, a senior government official from Bahrain said on Wednesday.
Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the GCC is a political and economic union of six Arab states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that border the Persian Gulf.
This is a typical scene of the Qinzhou automated container terminal at Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi — China's first sea-rail intermodal automated container terminal.
In the first eight months of this year, cargo throughput at Beibu Gulf Port exceeded 200 million tons, up 11.35 percent year-on-year, the port operator said.
Beibu Gulf Port Group said that more than 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers were handled by the port from January to August, up 14.98 percent year-on-year.
China will well implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which came into force for all 15 member economies in June, Guo said, adding that the country will advance the process of negotiating or upgrading FTAs with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Serbia, Honduras, New Zealand and Peru, among others.
- In the first eight months of this year, the cargo throughput of Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region exceeded 200 million tons, up 11.35 percent year-on-year, the port operator said.
According to Beibu Gulf Port Group, more than 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers were handled by the port from January to August, up 14.98 percent year-on-year.
Guangxi's Beibu Gulf Port is an important transit point in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provincial regions and ASEAN members.
Muara Port is Brunei's largest port, while Qinzhou Port in the Beibu Gulf is an important hub for trade and economic exchanges between China and the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The direct container shipping route has now cut the shipping time to just one week, and reduced costs by some 30 percent, according to the Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group Co Ltd. China and Brunei have had close exchanges for centuries, and the ancient Marine Silk Road was a major trade route for both sides.
Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group and Brunei's Darussalam Assets formed a joint venture in 2017 to operate the Muara Port container terminal and bulk cargo terminal, with a total investment of 1.03 billion yuan ($142.9 million) and an operation period of 60 years.
As shown in the figure, among the Pearl River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Chengdu-Chongqing region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, the Shandong Peninsula, the Central Plains, the Guanzhong Plain, and the Beibu Gulf, the Yangtze River Delta is home to the largest number of luxury brand stores, accounting for 26.8% of the national total.
The coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, the Central Plains, and Beibu Gulf are home to 2.8%, 2%, and 1.8% of top luxury brand stores, which are mostly concentrated in their core cities.
The city will take the forum as an opportunity to further enhance its ties with global partners, especially those in the Gulf region, in not only trade but industry, culture and technologies, Kang Yanmin, Party secretary of Cangzhou, said at the forum.
Themed the "dual-circle" development paradigm, cooperation with Arabian Gulf ports and the future development of the Bohai Rim, the forum was attended by more than 300 representatives, including delegates from Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, officials from relevant national ministries, commissions, and Bohai Rim cities, and leaders in various industries including port transportation, chemicals, logistics and cross-border e-commerce.
Shen Jiangying, president of Xinhuanet, said at the forum that the forum will give Bohai Rim cities and peers in the Gulf region an excellent opportunity to upgrade port-to-port shipping, industry and ecological development, and that "a development pattern of coast-inland win-win operation is around the corner".
- A cargo ship loaded with cassava starch and soda ash set sail from the Qinzhou Port in the Beibu Gulf Port of China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Tuesday.
The Beibu Gulf Port has become a convenient channel for interconnectivity between the western part of China and Southeast Asia.
Two-way fruit shipments see blossoming growth on sea routeNANNING — Cargo ships carrying 18 tons of Orah mandarin oranges departed from Qinzhou Port, a part of Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in late March, marking the very first batch of the sweet fruit exported via this sea route.
Since the beginning of this year, Beibu Gulf Port has shipped about 2,850 twenty-foot equivalent units of freezers, including 500 TEUs of fresh fruit, said He Jian, project manager of a logistics company at the port.
Thanks to the constant construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in inland China and ASEAN members, Beibu Gulf Port plays a pivotal role in providing maritime transportation with large transport volumes and lower costs, efficiently helping meet consumption needs.
As an important transit point in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, more than 1.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers were handled by Guangxi's Beibu Gulf Port in the first quarter of this year, up 14.7 percent year-on-year, data from the local government showed.
- In the first quarter of this year, the cargo throughput of Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region reached 68.77 million tonnes, up 5.5 percent year-on-year, the port operator said.
According to Beibu Gulf Port Group, more than 1.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers were handled by the port, up 14.7 percent year-on-year.
Guangxi's Beibu Gulf Port serves as an important transit point in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provincial regions and Singapore.
Thanks to the development of the trade corridor, the Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi has opened 47 trade routes to cover 393 ports in 119 countries and regions.
As the RCEP has spurred trade among signatory countries since January 2022, Huaihua in Hunan province has operated Huaihua-Laos and Huaihua-Vietnam cargo train services as well as the weekly Huaihua-Beibu Gulf Port rail-sea combined transport operations.
For instance, the Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region registered a throughput of 558,100 twenty-foot equivalent units in January, up 15 percent year-on-year.
In addition to pursuing free trade agreements with other countries and regional organizations, including the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel, upgrades to existing agreements with Peru, South Korea and Singapore are also being negotiated, said the ministry.
While many foreign and domestic ports face pressure to raise container throughput, Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is bucking the trend after seeing growing container throughput in January, said its operator.
The port's container throughput during the month amounted to 558,100 twenty-foot equivalent units, up 15 percent year-on-year, according to the latest information released by Beibu Gulf Port Group, a Shenzhen-listed company.
Compared with other key ports in China, Beibu Gulf Port has been able to capitalize on growing trade volume between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Comprising the ports of Fangchenggang, Qinzhou and Beihai, Beibu Gulf Port serves as an important transit point in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provincial regions and Singapore.
In addition to opening 11 new container routes, Beibu Gulf Port handled 7.02 million TEUs of containers in 2022, up 16.8 percent on a yearly basis.
Since ASEAN has become China's largest trading partner, Beibu Gulf Port — backed by its well-developed shipping routes to various ASEAN member economies — will help alleviate the pressure on China's foreign trade this year, said Li Muyuan, vice-president and secretary-general of the Beijing-based China Container Industry Association.
Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the GCC is a political and economic union of six Arab states that border the Persian Gulf.
For instance, King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, was included in the Gulf China Service in December 2021, which is a weekly service connecting central and southern China to the Gulf region — launched by Singapore's Pacific International Lines — in November 2021.
- Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region saw its cargo throughput rise 16.78 percent year-on-year to 7.02 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers in 2022.
With advances in the new land-sea transit routes in the western region and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, the port has been making efforts to explore supply sources in the western region of China, according to Beibu Gulf Port Group.
It also said measures should be taken to advance the free trade agreement negotiations between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council, as the establishment of a China-GCC FTA and further trade liberalization and facilitation can create broader space for bilateral trade and investment.
In addition to moving faster on talks with the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) for a free trade agreement, China is working on the 3.0 version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area.
Yang Jun, president for the Qatar market at Unilumin Group's international sales center, said that as the Gulf nation has high temperatures and strong sunlight, the LED displays used for the World Cup better disperse heat.
Guangzhou Port Group and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group Co Ltd reached an agreement about together building express shipping services between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Beibu Gulf to enhance regional connectivity.
The express shipping service will give full play to the advantages of the port resources and the capacity in the Beibu Gulf and the GBA, and provide new convenient way of transportation for the import and export of goods.
Guangxi's Beibu Gulf can connect with Western China and reach ports in ASEAN member states, while Nansha Port is located in the heart of the Pearl River Delta.
"Nansha Port and the city clusters in the Beibu Gulf are located near each other.
Li Yanqiang, president of the Beibu Gulf Port Group, said the RCEP had caused logistics demand to increase drastically, making the port more open and prosperous.
The Beibu Gulf and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have further strengthened their cooperation by signing a series of cooperation projects in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, ahead of the opening of the 19th China-ASEAN Expo.
"The GBA stands as one of the most economically dynamic regions in China, and Beibu Gulf is located close to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Running 135 kilometers, the canal will start at Xijin Reservoir in Hengzhou and terminate in Luwu town in Lingshan county, where ships will be able to reach the Beibu Gulf via the Qinjiang River.
The canal will shorten the voyage of goods entering the gulf in southwestern China by around 560 kilometers, with a depth that will allow a ship to carry 5,000 tons of cargo.
With Chongqing as the transportation hub, the corridor uses ports in Guangxi's Beibu Gulf to reach ports in Singapore and other ASEAN member states, and links China-Europe freight trains setting off from many western Chinese cities before heading to Central Asia, South Asia and Europe.
Speaking of the corridor at the 12th Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, earlier this month, Basilio Dias Araujo, deputy for Maritime Sovereignty and Energy, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment of Indonesia, said it has brought more opportunities to the connectivity between China and ASEAN.
Basilio added that as a maritime country, Indonesia is also happy to join in the construction of the corridor, and strengthen cooperation with ports along the route, including the Beibu Gulf Port.
The Beibu Gulf Port, which comprises the ports of Qinzhou, Fangcheng and Beihai, serves as an important transit point in the new International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.
Apart from taking multiple measures to stabilize exports in the second half, Zhang Bin, deputy director-general of foreign trade department at the Ministry of Commerce, said China will expand imports to ensure domestic supply of bulk commodities, as well as accelerate trade talks and upgrading processes for free-trade agreements between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council, Belarus, Israel, Singapore, South Korea and Peru, in the coming months.
Speaking at the 12th Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum held in Nanning last month, Jurin Laksanawisit, Thai deputy prime minister and commerce minister, said that under the framework of the RCEP agreement, Thai exporters had applied for RCEP certificates of origin worth $204 million from January to April.
With Chongqing as the transportation hub, the corridor uses ports in Guangxi's Beibu Gulf to reach ports in Singapore and other ASEAN countries and links China-Europe freight trains setting off from many western Chinese cities before heading to Central Asia, South Asia and Europe.
Basilio added that as a maritime country, Indonesia is also happy to join the construction of the corridor, and strengthen cooperation with ports along the route, including the Beibu Gulf Port.
During the same period, the port handled 3.2 million TEU containers, up 21.4 percent year-on-year, according to Beibu Gulf Port Group.
SITC Container Lines Co Ltd experienced a business boom in the Beibu Gulf Port thanks to the rapid development of the corridor and deepening China-ASEAN trade cooperation.
Speaking at the 12th Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, earlier this month, Jurin Laksanawisit, Thai deputy prime minister and commerce minister, said that under the framework of the RCEP agreement, Thai exporters had applied for RCEP certificates of origin worth $204 million from January to April this year.
Benefiting from this route, goods can be transported via various modes including railways, highways and water routes to the Beibu Gulf in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region before being shipped to other parts of the world along the sea routes.
Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng said China will strengthen the construction of land-sea intermodal transport hubs and land-based cross-border channels with all parties in the Pan-Beibu Gulf region, and support Guangxi to build the Pinglu Canal, which will be built later this year.
Stretching 140 kilometers and requiring an estimated investment of 68 billion yuan ($10.7 billion), the canal will link the Xijiang River, a major waterway in southwestern China, with ports in the Beibu Gulf.
Vessels on the middle and upper reaches of the Xijiang River can sail out to sea from the Beibu Gulf via the canal, a distance 560 km shorter than from Guangzhou Port in Guangdong province.
"We are willing to cooperate with all sides in the Pan-Beibu Gulf region to carry out comprehensive port development, improve the service capabilities of waterways, optimize port functions and support the growth of multimodal transport," Li said during the 12th Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum, held in Nanning, Guangxi's regional capital, late last week.