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18.12.12
Japan's Exports to Level off at 82.48 Trillion Yen in FY2019: JFTC
Total value of Japan's Exports is expected to level off in fiscal 2019 (April 2019-March 2020), growing a minute 0.9% from a year earlier to \82.48 trillion, according to trade and current balance ...
18.12.12
US's Monthly Retail Imports Reach 2 Mln TEUs for First Time
Imports at the U.S.'s major retail container ports have set another new record, reaching 2 million containers in a single month for the first time as retailers continued to bring merchandise into t...
18.12.11
Spot Rates from Shanghai to US Plunge Last Week
The growth of transportation demand in China's export container shipping market generally leveled off last week, but spot rates on the transpacific trades plunged and the Shanghai (Export) Containe...
18.12.11
FMC Authorized to Oversight Alliance’s Impacts on Competition
U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Federal Maritime Commission Authorization Act of 2017 on December 4, which urges the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to address antitrust issues arising fro...
18.12.07
Vietnam to Adjust Port Charges for Imports/Exports
Vietnam's Ministry of Transport, under Circular No. 54/2018/TT-BGTVT, will adjust charges for loading and unloading containers at the nation's deep-sea ports, effective January 1, 2019. For ports n...
18.12.06
Container Throughput Index Reaches Annual High in Oct
The Container Throughput Index of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the ISL Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics reached an annual high with 134.6 points in October. Th...
18.12.05
Taiwan, Japan Sign AEO Mutual Recognition Arrangement
The Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) on Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) between Taiwan and Japan was signed at the 43rd Taiwan-Japan Economic and Trade Conference held in Taipei on November ...
18.12.05
China Railway Express Moves 920,000 TEUs of Containers
China Railway Express (CRE), an international rail container service between China and Europe, had operated a total of 11,000 trains by the end of October. Linking 45 cities in China with 15 Europe...
18.12.04
Ex-Shanghai Spot Container Rates Dip 1.5% Last Week
Freight rates for exporting containers from China declined on many trade routes last week, as pre-Christmas shipments had reached a peak, and consequently, transport demand had begun weakening. The...
18.12.04
World Trade Outlook Indicator Signals Further Decline in Q4
Trade growth is likely to slow further into the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the World Trade Organization's recent World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) released last week. The most recent W...