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20.02.07
DI for Transportation, Warehousing down 3.1 Points in Jan.
Japan's domestic economy worsened for the fourth consecutive month in January resulting from sluggishness in production that were deteriorated by this season’s record-warm winter, according to the...
20.02.06
Box Traffic to/from S. Korea Grows at Its Slowest Pace in Last 10 Years
The combined volume of shipments processed at trade ports in South Korea increased 0.8% from the previous year to 1.638 billion tons in 2019, posting the smallest year-on-year growth in 10 years, a...
20.02.05
Box Volumes at Taiwan’s Big 4 Ports Fall 0.15% in 2019
Taiwan’s Big Four international ports handled a total of 15,298,285 TEUs of containers in 2019, decreasing 0.15% from the previous year’s 15,321,722 TEUs, according to statistics compiled by the Mi...
20.02.03
Cross-Strait Box Trade Wanes 2.9% to 2.49 Mln TEUs in 2019
Direct container traffic between Taiwan and China totaled 2,492,372 TEUs in 2019, down 2.86% compared to 2,565,638 TEUs, according to statistics compiled by Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and ...
20.01.31
Japan-China Box Traffic Drops in Both Directions in Nov
Exports from Japan to China plunged 13% to 850,474 tons in November 2019, registering a year-on-year contraction for the ninth consecutive month, according to figures compiled by the Japan Maritime...
20.01.30
ASEAN-10 to Add Three Documents to ASW Platform
Ten ASEAN countries will start to exchange documents via the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) platform including the e-Phyto-Sanitary Certificate, e-Animal Health Certificate and the e-ASEAN Customs Decla...
20.01.29
Japan-S. Korea Box Trade to Shrink for 1st Time in 4 Years
It is estimated that container trade between Japan and South Korea shrank from a year earlier in 2019, suffering the first year-on-year contraction in four years, or since 2015. Major contributing ...
20.01.27
Ex-China Box Rates Dwindle in Face of Lunar New Year
Freight rates for exporting containers from China fluctuated mildly on many trades in the week of Jan. 13, as the shipment rush before Lunar New Year had come to an end. The Shanghai Shipping Excha...
20.01.24
Container Rates Soar on Asia to Middle East Trade
Spot rates for carrying containers from Asia to the Middle East exceeded the 1,000-per-TEU line in December 2019, the first such development in five years and a month, or since November 2014. At a ...
20.01.24
Ocean Box Traffic at Yokohama Dips Slightly in Jan-Oct
The Port of Yokohama handled 215,268 TEUs of loaded and empty oceangoing containers in October 2019, which plunged 12.6% from the previous year, according to the City of Yokohama’s Port and Harbor ...
