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17.11.30
India's Box Volumes Rise 6.5% in H1 of FY2017/18
The Indian Ports Association (IPA) recently announced that India’s 11 state-run ports handled a total of 5.244 million TEUs of containers in the seven months from April to October, which increased ...
17.11.28
Jan-Oct Containers Exceed 20 Mln TEUs in S. Korea
A total of 1.18 billion tons of cargo was handled at trade ports in South Korea in the first 10 months (January-October) of this year, which increased 5.5% year on year from 1.119 million tons, acc...
17.11.27
JIFFA Members Make New Export Cargo Record in H1 of FY2017
Members of the Japan International Freight Forwarders Association (JIFFA) moved from Japan to other economies a total of 22.18 million revenue tons (RTs) of international multimodal cargo in the fi...
17.11.24
Chinese Ports Handle 197 Mln TEUs in Jan-Oct
Ports in China handled a total of 19.997 million TEUs of containers in October, which increased 8.2% from a year earlier, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). Container throughput...
17.11.21
Japan-China Cargo Volumes Fall Slightly in Sept
The Japan Maritime Center (JMC) recently reported that in September, 845,111 tons of containers were exported from Japan to China. Due to decreases in wood pulp and waste paper, the total declined ...
17.11.21
TSA Revenue Index Declines Again in Sept
The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) recently unveiled the TSA Revenue Index—which regards June 2008 as the baseline month with a value of 100 points—for shipments bound for the west coas...
17.11.20
Four ASEAN Customs Authorities to Go Live with Exchange of Form D
Singapore Customs has†announced that†Singapore, together with Indonesia, Malaysia and Viet Nam, will transit into the live operation of the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) for the electronic exchange of ...
17.11.20
Box Volume from Asia to US Sets Record in Oct
In October, 1,416,767 TEUs of containers were moved on mainline vessels from 10 countries and regions in Asia to the U.S., which increased 6.2% year on year, according to a report recently unveiled...
17.11.17
Box Throughput at Hong Kong Dips 1.4% in Oct
Container throughput g at the port of Hong Kong fell 1.4% in October to 1.664 million TEUs. Volumes at the main Kwai Tsing terminals made a slight decline of 0.9% from the same month last year to 1...
17.11.15
UN Reports Accelerating Implementation of Paperless Trade
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), together with all four other United Nations regional commissions for Africa (ECA), Europe (ECE), Latin America an...
