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11.03.30
Earthquake Relief Goods Push up China ? Japan Freight Index
Container volumes exported from China did not increase very much during the week from March 19 to March 25, while container freight rates went down slightly, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exc...
11.03.28
Box TradeIntelligence Eyes 6.1% Asian Box Trade Growth in 2012
TradeIntelligence, the U.K.'s container shipping research company, announced that the intra-Asia trade will be over 22 million TEU in 2012, achieving a 6.1% compound average growth rate (CAGR) fro...
11.03.18
Dockworkers Suspend Planned Strikes, Place Top Priority on Recovery
Japan Harbor Transportation Association (JHTA) and All Japan Dockworkers’ Union (JDU) agreed Thursday to shelve their annual spring wage hike negotiations. The dockworkers' union announced they wi...
11.03.17
Asia-US Container Traffic Increases 15.4% in 2010
In 2010, the volume of containerized shipments exported to the U.S. from Japan and 17 other Asian economies increased 15.4% from a year earlier to 13.806 million TEUs, which was nearly as much as ...
11.03.16
Northern Japanese Ports Immensely Damaged, No Prospects for Reopening
Earthquake-ravaged container ports are dealing with the damage they suffered from the recent catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit many municipalities in northeastern Japan. At the Port of...
11.03.15
Massive Quake Devastates Japan's Northern Gateway
The huge earthquake measured 10 on the Richter scale and the following tsunami swept away Japan's Tohoku and North-Kanto area on Friday, claiming immeasurable numbers of casualties and causing dev...
11.03.10
Asia to Europe Box Traffic Makes Double-digit Gains in Jan
Westbound containers from Asia to Europe increased 17.67% from a year earlier to 1,303,500 TEUs in January 2011, according to Container Trade Statistics, Ltd. Behind the double-digit improvement, ...
11.03.09
CTSA Adopts General Rate Increase for May 1, 2011
Container shipping lines in the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (CTSA) have called for a General Rate Increase (GRI), effective May 1, 2011. Mmember carriers in the CTSA say they inten...
11.03.07
Japanese Firms Rapidly Making Foray into Indian Market
The number of Japanese companies doing business in India has reached 672, increasing 2.7 times over the last five years, according to Teikoku Databank, Ltd. By type of business, manufacturers hold...
