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16.05.18
China Container Throughput Grows 3% in April
Ports in China handled 18,165,500 TEUs of containers in total in April, which grew 3.1% year on year, according to an announcement made by the nation’s Ministry of Transport. Coastal ports were res...
16.05.16
Indonesia Introduces New Rules on Forest Products Import
The Indonesian Ministry of Trade has implemented the new regulation 97/M-DAG/PER/11/2015 introducing new rules on the import of industrial forestry products. Under the rule, importers in the countr...
16.05.12
South Korea-China Containers down 0.64% in Q1
Container movement between South Korea and China decreased 0.64% year on year to 634,645 TEUs in the first quarter (January-March) of this year, adversely influenced by the slowdown in the Chinese ...
16.05.10
Philippine Customs Introduces Advance Manifest Rules
The Philippines' Bureau of Customs' advance manifest was introduced on May 1, 2016 which requires all shipping lines and agents, non – vessel - operating common carriers (NVOCCs), and freight forwa...
16.05.09
COSCO Ship Wins Draw to Transit Expanded Panama Canal First
China COSCO Shipping has won the draw for the first transit through the Expanded Panama Canal during the waterway's inauguration on Sunday, June 26. The shipping line's container vessel ''Androniko...
16.05.06
MLIT Unveils Guidelines for SOLAS VGM
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan recently unveiled a guideline for the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea’s Verified Gross Mass (SOLAS...
16.05.06
Japan’s Used Car Export Falls 5% in March
Japan exported a total of 109,878 used vehicles—i.e., passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses—in March, decreasing 5.1% from a year earlier, which was the first year-on-year decline in two months,...
16.05.06
Box Traffic in South Korea Remains Flat in 1st Quarter
Combined container throughput at trade ports in South Korea remained nearly unchanged from a year earlier in the first quarter (January-March) of this year, growing a minute 0.2% from 6.314 million...
