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17.03.31
Dockworkers Set to Stage Another Strike on Apr 2
As this year’s spring annual laborer offensive for port and harbor workers is at a deadlock, the National Council of Dockworkers’ Unions of Japan (Zenkoku Kowan) and the Japanese Confederation of P...
17.03.30
Malaysia to Implement New HS Codes 2017
Effective April 1, 2017, Malaysia will abolish the Customs Duty Order (PDK) and adopt the ASEAN Harmonized Tariff Nomenclature (AHTN). This will involve a total change of Customs HS Code from the c...
17.03.29
Korea-China Box Traffic by Ferry Up 9% in Jan-Feb
The movement of ferry containers between South Korea and China was favorable in the first two months (January-February), swelling 9.2% from a year earlier to 85,291 TEUs. Looking at ferry container...
17.03.29
Vietnam to Mandate Publishing of Freithts and Charges
Vietnam's Ministry of Transport (MOT) is set to require foreign container carriers to make public their charges, surcharges of freight services for containerized goods as well as port service charg...
17.03.28
Japan to China Box Traffic Grows 8.4% in January
Outbound container movement from Japan to China increased 8.4% to 807,705 tons in January, achieving year-on-year growth for the third consecutive month, according to an announcement the Japan Mari...
17.03.28
Transpacific Revenue Index Rises in January
The revenue index for services bound for the west coast of North America and interior point intermodal (IPI) destinations went up by 5.5 points to 79.09 points in January, making the first positive...
17.03.24
Philippines's Laguna Dry Port Certified As Customs Facility
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) of the Philippines has certified the Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal (LGICT), the dry port container handling facility of International Container Terminal Servi...
17.03.23
Spanish Dockworkers Cancel Their Planned Strikes
Spanish dockworkers unions led by the State Coordinator of Sea Workers (CETM in Spanish) have called off their scheduled strikes as the parliament failed to give nod to the government's proposed re...
17.03.22
Container Volumes in China Rise 7.8% in February
Trade ports in China handled a total of 14.273 million TEUs of containers in February, which increased 7.8% from the corresponding month of 2016, according to an announcement made on March 14 by th...
17.03.21
FIATA, CLECAT Express Concern about Capacity Shortage
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT) have been deeply concerned about ...
