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21.03.19
Box Throughput at Yokohama down 11.1% to 2.66 Mln TEUs in 2020
The Port of Yokohama handled a total of 2,661,622 TEUs of containers in 2020, down 11.1% from the previous calendar year, according to the city of Yokohama’s Port and Harbor Bureau. Oceangoing ship...
21.03.18
Egypt to Introduce Advance Cargo Information System from April
The Egyptian Minister of Finance has announced simplified and expedited procedures and rules for the trade and investment in Egypt, issuing the decree No. 38 of 2021 which involves the Advance Carg...
21.03.17
Box Throughput Falls Short at Hong Kong Port in February
In February, the Port of Hong Kong suffered a 10.4% decline in box volumes. Total throughput for the month was 1.039 million TEUs, of which the Kwai Tsing terminals handled 914,000 TEUs, down 3.5% ...
21.03.16
Ex-China Container Rates Decline 3% Last Week
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) recently announced freight rates for containerized shipments exported from China in Week 10. The China Containerized Freight Index stood at 1,912.3 points, down...
21.03.16
New Legal Framework for eTIR to Take Effect in May
The United Nations Secretary General has confirmed that Since no TIR Convention signatories have filed objections to the new global legal framework for digitalized eTIR, it will enter into force on...
21.03.15
Asia-to-U.S. Box Traffic Spikes 32% in Feb.
Container exports to the U.S. from 10 major countries and regions in Asia amounted to 1,471,988 TEUs in February, swelling 32% from a year earlier, American research company Descartes Datamyne unve...
21.03.12
Port of Long Beach Reports Busiest February on Record
An unseasonable surge in cargo lifted the Port of Long Beach to its busiest February on record. The port handled 771,735 TEUs in February, a 43.3% uptick from the same month last year and marking t...
21.03.10
Congestion Remains at Ports in San Pedro Bay
Congestion at the U.S. West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach still remains s of last weekend, with a total of 28 containerships anchored in San Pedro Bay where the twin ports are located, ...
21.03.09
Ex-China Container Rates Slide for 2 Weeks Running
The China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI) for Week 9 stood at 1,970.58 points, down 4.3% from the 2,059.52 points registered a week earlier, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE). Th...
21.03.09
Shanghai's Box Throughput Jumps 48% in February
Shanghai port posted a container volume of 3.4 million TEUs handled in February this year, representing a 47.8% leap over the same period last year when its box traffic tumbled by 20% due to the ou...
