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16.02.17
Box Traffic at South Californian Ports Surges in January
The Port of Los Angeles handled 704,398 TEUs in January 2016, an increase of 33 percent compared to January 2015. It was the busiest January in the port's 109-year history. January 2016 imports sur...
16.02.17
US Senate Passes Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act
The U.S. Senate passed last week the conference version of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (HR-644), which, among others, would authorize and fund Customs and Border Protection (CB...
16.02.17
FMC to Host Hearings on Box Weight Verification
On behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is hosting a public listening session on the amendments to the International Maritime Organization's Safety of Life at Sea (...
16.02.16
Box Throughput at Kobe Reaches Highest Since ‘95 Earthquake
The Port of Kobe handled 2.705 million TEUs of containers in 2015 (January-December), which increased 3.4% from the previous year. The total throughput was highest since 1995, when the area was dev...
16.02.15
Port of New York/New Jersey Sets New Cargo Record
The Port of New York and New Jersey exceeded its previous record for annual cargo volumes in 2015 by more than 10 percent, building on the jobs and economic activity the port generates for the bi-s...
16.02.12
Sill Reinforcements Complete in New Panama Canal Locks
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that sill reinforcements in the new locks had been completed last week, bringing the Panama Canal Expansion one step closer to inauguration. The filli...
16.02.10
Box Traffic at Russian Ports Plunges 25% in 2015
Container throughput handled at Russian seaports plunged 25.4% year on year to 3.94 million TEUs in 2015, according to the Association of Commercial Seaports (ASOP). The ports of the Baltic Basin h...
16.02.08
No Anti-Monopoly Exemption Necessary for Shipping: JFTC
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) released Friday a report on the Review of the System for Exemption from the Antimonopoly Act for International Ocean Shipping. Although the system of exemptio...
16.02.05
Maritime Piracy Remains at Previous Year's Level
Piracy and armed robbery on the world's seas is persisting at levels close to those in 2014, despite reductions in the number of ships hijacked and crew captured, the International Chamber of Comme...
16.02.04
China Implements Import License Customs Clearance Nationwide
As of February 1, 2016, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs expanded the scope of automatic import license customs clearance to every region of the country. Customs h...
