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14.09.30

Box Traffic at Busan Rises 5.5% to 53 Mln TEUs in Aug.

South Korea’s Port of Busan handled a total of 1,531,301 TEUs of containers in August, according to the Busan Port Authority (BPA). Throughput at the nation’s largest container port complex enjoyed...

14.09.29

Reefer Container Train Service Launched in Vietnam

Vietnam Railways (VNR) has launched operation of its first 40-foot reefer container train between Yen Vien Station in Hanoi and Song Than Station in Binh Duong Province. The train dedicated for ree...

14.09.25

Ghana Delays Imports Verification Program

Ghana has postponed the implementation of the Verification of Conformity for imports, according to French testing, inspection and certification (TIC) group Bureau Veritas. The Conformity Assessment...

14.09.24

Asia to US Box Traffic Tops 1.3 Mln-TEU Mark, First in 7 Years

Asia exported 1.325 million TEUs of containers to the U.S. in August, growing 5% year on year and exceeding the 1.3-million-TEU line for the first time in six years and 11 months, or since Septembe...

14.09.24

Containers from Japan to China down 5.3% to 997,412 tons in July

Container trade between Japan and China declined in both directions in July. The Japan Maritime Center (JMC) recently unveiled that exports from Japan to China fell 5.3% from a year earlier to 997,...

14.09.22

Yokohama Int’l Containers Increase YOY 1st Time in 4 Years at 1.305 Mln TEUs

The Port of Yokohama processed 59.62 million tons of shipments in total (up 1% year on year) in the first half (January-June) of this year, enjoying the first year-on-year growth in two years. Inte...

14.09.22

Japan Helping Myanmar Launch Container Train

Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has announced it will launch a proving test in Myanmar aimed at implementing the nation's first rail transport of ocean contai...

14.09.19

China Customs on Its Way to Integrate Regional Customs

China's General Administration of Customs will expand its customs integration approach to the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta regions effective October 1, 2014. This is part of the ce...

14.09.18

China-wide Port Box Throughput Rises 7.2% in August

Container throughput at mainland China ports grew 7.2% to 17.564 million TEUs in August compared to the same month last year. Marine ports handled 15.823 million TEUs, up 7.3% from the same month l...

14.09.17

Vietnam to Go Online for Administrative Procedures

Vietnam is set to implement a pilot one-stop customs mechanism by the end of the year in a bid to facilitate fast-track customs procedures for exporters and importers. Initially, certain procedures...

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