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20.07.13
Asia to US Box Traffic down 8.4% to 7.19 Mln TEUs in H1
Outbound containers to the U.S. from 10 major countries and regions in Asia decreased 4.2% from a year earlier to a total of 1,295,613 TEUs in June, according to Miami-based data provider Descartes...
20.07.10
US Retail Imports Improving Slightly, But Still below Last Year
Imports at major U.S. retail container ports are expected to remain significantly below last year's levels into this fall as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, according to the monthly ...
20.07.10
Hong Kong to Ease Air Draft Limit of Tsing Ma Bridge
The Hong Kong Government has agreed to ease the air draft restriction level at Tsing Ma Bridge to 57 meters from the current 53 meters. The decision has been long awaited by the Hong Kong Liner Shi...
20.07.08
Oceangoing Containers to/from Shimizu Plunge 15.4% in June
The Port of Shimizu handled 33,810 TEUs of oceangoing containers in June, down 15.4% year on year, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the Shizuoka Prefectural Government’s Shimizu Port...
20.07.06
JSA Unveils New Standard for Cold Chain Logistics Services
The Japanese Standards Association (JSA) has published JSA-S 1004:2020 ''Cold Chain Logistics Services'' based on the ''ASEAN-Japan Guidelines on Cold Chain Logistics:2018'' and JSA-S 1005:2020. JS...
20.06.30
Korea-China Box Traffic Rises for Three Consecutive Months
On the trade route between South Korea and China, 288,300 TEUs were moved in May, swelling 5.2% year on year from 263,900 TEUs, according to statistics compiled by the Yellow Sea Liner Shipping Cou...
20.06.29
Korea to Southeast Asia Box Trade Sees 4.5% Decline in May
South Korea and eight Southeast Asian countries traded a total of 319,800 TEUs of containers in May, which decreased 4.5% from the 334,900 TEUs handled on the route a year earlier, according to sta...
20.06.29
Saudi Arabia Triples VAT to Confront Pandemic
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Finance has announced to increase VAT from 5% to 15% as of July 2020, highlighting the importance of the measures undertaken to protect the Saudi economy and overcome the...
20.06.26
Japan-to-China Containers Contract 6.1% in April
Outbound containers from Japan to China decreased 6.1% to 813,652 tons in April, due to shrinkages in wastepaper, machinery, iron and steel and other commodities, according to the Japan Maritime Ce...
20.06.25
WTO Predicts Steep Fall in World Trade in H1 2020
World trade fell sharply in the first half of the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the global economy. However, rapid government responses helped temper the contraction, and World Trade Organ...
