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21.01.18
Singapore Container Throughput Dips 0.9% in 2020
Container throughput at the port of Singapore inched up 1.9% from the same month in 2019 to 3.26 million TEUs. For the entire year, its box traffic dipped 0.9% from the previous year to 36.9 millio...
21.01.14
US Retail Imports May Break Record Despite Pandemic
US retail imports seen during 2020 appear to be headed toward a new record despite the coronavirus pandemic, and remain at high levels as 2021 begins, according to the Global Port Tracker report. U...
21.01.13
Asia-to-US Box Trade Grows 4.5% to 17.15 million TEUs in 2020
Container exports to the U.S. from 10 major countries and regions in Asia increased a notable 27.9% from a year earlier to 1,629,635 TEUs in December 2020, setting a new record for the month in que...
21.01.12
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Goes up 3.1%
Freight rates for exporting containers from China fluctuated at high levels in the ended o January 8 despite a slowdown in transport demand. The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) improved...
21.01.08
Japan, Uruguay Sign Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement
Governments of Japan and Uruguay have signed the Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) in Montevideo on January 6, 2021. This agreement will enter into force on the 30th day after the date of ...
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...
