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18.09.14
BIMCO Warns Harmful Effects of Trade War
BIMCO has said that the trade war between the US and China would exert negative impact on globalization and international shipping. According to BIMCO, 85.3% of Chinese seaborne imports from the US...
18.09.13
ILA Members Ratify 6-Year Master Contract
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) President Harold Daggett has notified ILA locals covered by the Master Contract that a ratification vote on the proposed six-year contract that was ov...
18.09.13
US Retail Imports Set Another Record in July
With retail sales continuing to grow, imports at the U.S.'s major retail container ports are expected to remain strong this month after setting three new records this summer, according to the month...
18.09.12
Asia-U.S. Box Trade Makes Fractional Growth in August
U.S. research company Descartes DataMyne unveiled on Sept. 10 that a total of 1,456,040 TEUs of containers were exported to the U.S. from 10 Asian countries and regions in August. Although remainin...
18.09.12
Box throughput at Kobe Reaches All-time high in H1
The Port of Kobe handled a total of 1.49 million TEUs of containers in the first half (January-June) of 2018, which grew 2.9% year on year to reach an all-time high, according to the city of Kobe’s...
18.09.10
ILWU, BCMEA Agree on Collective Labor Agreement
The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union - Canada (ILWU-Canada) Local 502 signed a tentative five-year collective agreement on...
18.09.10
World Container Traffic Grows 2.1% to 14 Mln TEUs in July
A total of 14,011,116 TEUs of containers were traded worldwide in July, up 2.1% from a year earlier, enjoying a year-on-year increase for 10 months in a row, according to statistics compiled by Con...
18.09.06
Container Volumes to/from Japan Swell 4.7% to 18.4 Mln TEUs in 2017
The Harbor Modernization Promotion Committee (HMPC) has unveiled that 64 international oceangoing container ports in Japan handled a total of 18,382,552 TEUs of shipments in 2017, up 4.7% from the ...
18.09.05
New Rail Service Links Swiss Market with Two Leading French Ports
French National Railways (SNCF) subsidiary Naviland Cargo launch a new rail shuttle service ''France-Helvetia Express'' for containers to link the Swiss market to France's the Normandy and French M...
18.09.03
Cross-Strait Box Trade Wanes 1.2% to 1.447 Mln TEUs in Jan-July
Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) recently unveiled that 222,719 TEUs of containers were directly traded to and from China in July, enjoying a double-digit improvement o...
