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16.06.29
South Korea’s Box Throughput Rises Slightly in May
Trade ports in South Korea processed a total of 124.46 million tons of cargo in May, which increased 1.4% from a year earlier, according to the economy’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. Container...
16.06.28
BIC to Provide Database for SOLAS's VGM
Paris-based Bureau International des Containers et du Transport Intermodal (BIC) has announced the launch of a pilot database of container tare weight data to support carriers, shippers, forwarders...
16.06.27
MLIT to Run Logistics Pilot Project for Produce in Myanmar
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan will run a logistics pilot project for fiscal 2016 (April 2016-March 2017) in Myanmar. The ministry intends to modernize ...
16.06.24
Korea to Southeast Asia Box Traffic Makes Steady Gains
Container movement between South Korea and Southeast Asia increased in both directions in the first five months (January-May) of this year, according to a report compiled by an organization of Sout...
16.06.23
New Box Terminal Operational in Mid-July in Jakarta
Indonesia's state-run port operator Pelindo II is set to inaugurate full commercial operation of the New Priok Container Terminal (NPCT 1). NPCT is part of the first phase of the New Priok which is...
16.06.22
Spot Rates from China Continue Falling
Freight rates for exporting containerized shipments from China fluctuated weakly last week. The Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) unveiled on June 17 that the China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI...
16.06.21
Philippines Goes Electronic on Air Exports
Philippines' Bureau of Customs implemented Friday the Automated Declaration System (AEDS) on export shipments from its major airports including Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Clark Internation...
16.06.17
Intra-Asia Containers Goes up 2.5% in April
Major shipping companies in April handled a total of 1.222 million TEUs of containerized shipments among 13 countries and regions in Asia, which increased 2.5% from a year earlier and registered a ...
16.06.16
MLIT to Retain Antimonopoly Exemption for Ocean Shipping
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan announced on June 14 that it had decided to maintain the system for the time being under which international oceangoing s...
16.06.14
Customs Bureau Looks into Clearance Time for Imports
The Ministry of Finance (MOF)’s Customs and Tariff Bureau has unveiled the results of a survey that it had conducted on amounts of time consumed on customs-clearance formalities for importing shipm...
