Transport & Logistics

Stellantis scraps US plug-in hybrid sales, citing weak demand

The automaker’s pullback comes as Detroit carmakers reassess electric-vehicle spending amid policy changes under US President Donald Trump

Chinese EV giant BYD became the top-selling brand in Singapore in 2025.

More Singapore drivers plan to return to petrol cars as EV interest dips: EY study

Respondents cite lingering anxieties over charging infrastructure and hidden costs

Having the established models into a separate brand may be part of BYD’s push to guard its ride-hailing market while protecting its burgeoning premium image.

BYD creates new Linghui sub-brand aimed at ride-hailing market

A version of the popular electric Qin Plus will be re-badged as the Linghui e5

Cathay’s efficiency drive comes as employee numbers approach the level last seen at the end of 2019, even as capacity has not fully returned to the pre-Covid-19 rate.

Cathay Pacific seeks savings, cuts some jobs in efficiency push

The airline has said that it plans to hire 3,000 people this year, pushing headcount beyond the 34,000 at the end of 2025

GM began writing down some EV-related investments last year, including a US$1.6 billion third-quarter charge.

GM to take US$6 billion writedown on EV pullback 

GM’s EV sales dropped 43 per cent in the fourth quarter after the loss of the consumer tax credit

Panama's maritime authority also said the Bella-1, a Russian-flagged tanker the US seized the same day near Iceland after a two-week pursuit, was once listed on the country’s registry.

Panama says it cancelled flag of US-seized oil tanker a year ago

[PANAMA CITY] Panama’s maritime authority on Thursday said it had cancelled in January of last year the flag of the M Sophia, a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by the US military this week.

Philipp Kandal, chief product officer at Grab, with Xia Xianqing, president of GAC.

Grab, Chinese automaker GAC to deploy 20,000 EVs across South-east Asia

It will involve the introduction of three of the Chinese player’s models – Aion Y, Aion ES, and Aion V – across the region

An artist's impression of the Omega 1 Singapore facility which will be developed on a 5.1-hectare site at 19 Gul Lane in the Jurong Industrial Estate.

CLI fund buys 5-hectare Jurong site to build S$260 million automated logistics facility

71,000 sq m facility set for completion in 2028; CLI also takes minority stake in smart logistics firm Ally Logistic Property

The operation took place after the tanker, originally known as the Bella-1 (top) slipped through a US maritime blockade of sanctioned tankers in the Caribbean and rebuffed US Coast Guard efforts to board it.

US seizes Russian-flagged tanker, another tied to Venezuela as Trump widens oil push

It appears to be the first time in recent memory that the US military has seized a Russian-flagged vessel