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21.01.07
Shippers, Forwarders Call on European Commission to Act
Amid surging container spot rates on the Asia -Europe trade, European shippers and freight forwarders have once more alerted the European Commission on the current practices of liner shipper carrie...
21.01.07
Box Throughput at Port of Tokyo Swells 4% in Oct. ‘20
The Port of Tokyo handled 273,258 TEUs of loaded international-trade containers in October 2020, which declined 1.3% year on year, according to preliminary statistics unveiled by the Tokyo Metropol...
21.01.05
Shanghai Container Spot Rates Still Rising
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) remained bullish in the final week of 2020, hiking 5.3% from the previous week to 2,783.03 points. As for freight rates for exporting containers from...
21.01.05
Shanghai Remains World's Busiest Container Port in 2020
Shanghai port maintained the top position in the world in terms of container throughput in 2020. Its box throughput totaled 43.5 million TEUs last year, ranking the first in the world for 11 consec...
20.12.28
Shanghai-South America Container Rates Surge to $7,184/TEU
Containers Moved on TSR Surge 24% to Top 1Mln TEUs in Jan.-Sept. The accumulated volume of containerized shipments moved on the Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) by Russian Railways in the first nine mo...
20.12.28
Japan's Container Volumes Projected to Grow in FY2021
Nittsu Research Institute and Consulting, Inc. (NRIC) envisages that imports of oceangoing containers to Japan will turn upward in fiscal 2021 (April 2021-March 2022), growing 6.5% from a year earl...
20.12.25
Japan's Box Exports to China Soar 17.7% in Oct.
Containerized exports from Japan to China grew 17.7% to 1,008,861 tons in October, thanks to notable increases in wood pulp / wastepaper / paperboard and plastics / plastic products, according to s...
20.12.25
S. Korea-China Container Trade Grows 4.5% in Jan.-Oct.
A total of 2,704,600 TEUs of containers were traded between South Korea and China in the first 11 months (January-November) of 2020, which grew 4.5% year on year from 2,588,400 TEUs, according to t...
20.12.24
Port Containers in China Up 8.8% to 24.17 Mln TEUs in Nov.
A total of 24.17 million TEUs of containers were processed at ports in China in November, up 8.8% year on year, according to the nation's Ministry of Transport (MOT). Coastal and inland river ports...
20.12.24
World Trade Volume Rallies in Q3 After Covid-19 Shock
Global merchandise trade volumes bounced back in the third quarter of 2020 from a deep second quarter slump brought on by the COVID-19 crisis according to statistics released recently by the World ...
