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18.03.29

Japan-China Container Trade Wanes in Both Directions in Jan

The Japan Maritime Center (JMC) on March 27 unveiled a report that it had compiled with trade statistics released by the Ministry of Finance (MOF). The report indicated that containers from Japan t...

18.03.29

Japan Grants 6 Bln Yen for Mandalay Port Project

Myanmar’s Deputy Minister for Planning and Finance U Set Aung and Tomoko Yoshihiro, Charge d’ Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar signed and exchanged three agreements last week,...

18.03.27

Electronic Cargo Report Mandatory from April 20 in South Africa

South African Revenue Service (SARS) is set to implement the first phase of the Reporting of Conveyances and Goods (RCG) project which falls under the New Customs Acts Program (NCAP). Building on t...

18.03.23

India Customs Set to Crack down on Hazardous Waste Imports

Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House has issued a new regulation which requires importers of additional details on the bills of lading for all imports into India. ''There have been a number of instances w...

18.03.22

China Box Throughput Grows 8.9% to 16.7 Mln in Feb

Ports in China handled a total of 16.742 million TEUs of containers in February, which improved 8.9% year on year, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). Throughput grew at both coa...

18.03.22

GMS Countries Sign MoU for Transport Facilitation

Transport ministers from Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries - Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 15, 2018 on the implem...

18.03.20

Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Continues to Decline

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) fell 7.4 percent since last Friday's reading of 729.49 to a reading of 675.46 due to dull demand after the week-long Spr...

18.03.19

Intra-Asia Box Traffic Surges 19.9% in Jan

The combined volume of containerized shipments that leading shipping lines moved in January among 13 countries and regions in Asia grew 19.9% from a year earlier to 863,000 TEUs, enjoying a year-on...

18.03.19

Yokohama Reports 5.3% Gain in 2017 Box Throughput

The Port of Yokohama processed 114.87 million tons of shipments in 2017, which increased 5.3% from the previous year and registered the first year-on-year in five years, according to preliminary po...

18.03.15

Japan and Thailand Agree on Yen - Baht Direct Exchange

The Ministry of Finance of Japan and the Bank of Thailand have recently signed the Memorandum of Cooperation for the establishment of a Framework for Cooperation to promote the use of local currenc...

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