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17.06.15
Singapore's Box Traffic Surges 12.2% in May
The Port of Singapore handed 53.9 million tons of cargo in May, which hiked 2.3% from a year earlier. Container lifting was favorable in particular, which surged 10.6% to 31.4 million tons. In term...
17.06.13
US Retail Imports Expected to Hit Records in August
The rate of import growth at the U.S. 's major retail container ports has begun to slow after double-digit surges earlier this year but volume should nonetheless hit an all-time high by the end of ...
17.06.12
JIFFA General Assembly Approves FY2017 Business Programs
Japan International Freight Forwarders Association Inc. (JIFFA) convened its sixth annual general assembly on June 8, at which it agreed on a business plan that it will advance in fiscal 2017 (Apri...
17.06.12
EU Requires Bangladesh to Screen Exports for Explosives
The European Union (EU) placed Bangladesh on the list of high-risk nations for EU trade on June 1, 2017, demanding a new security screening check for explosives on its exports transported by sea an...
17.06.09
Japan-Korea Ferry Container Volumes up Minute 1% in 2016
A total of 1,199,980 passengers traveled between Japan and South Korea in ferry services in 2016, which came back to increase 5.8% year on year, according to a report compiled by the latter economy...
17.06.07
Saudi Arabia-Led Arab Coalition Bans Trade with Qatar
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen announced on Monday that they were severing diplomatic relations with Qatar, and closed borders with the neighboring country. ...
17.06.06
Intra-Asia Box Volumes Fall for 4th Straight Month
Leading shipping companies moved a total of 992,429 TEUs of container in April among 13 countries and regions in Asia, which fell 6.8% from the corresponding month of the previous year and suffered...
17.06.06
Japan Signs ODA Loan Agreement with Cameroon
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed last week a loan agreement with the Cameroon Government in Yaounde to provide a Japanese ODA loan of up to 5.894 billion yen for the Yaounde...
17.06.05
China Customs to Realize Nationwide Single Window
Pressing ahead with building the Single Window and realizing nationwide integrated customs clearance, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) has taken the lead and worked with other compe...
17.06.02
Japan's Used Vehicle Exports Grow 1.5% in April
The International Auto Trade Association (iATA) recently reported that a total of 111,666 secondhand vehicles (passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses) were exported from Japan in April, which inc...
