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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 ...
20.01.23
AEO Importers Allowed to Pay THCs Directly to Terminal Operators in Nhava Sheva
Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House has issued a public notice which allows importers having Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status in Nhava Sheva and those availing direct port delivery (DPD) facilit...
20.01.23
Containers to/from China Reach Record 260 Mln TEUs in 2019
Combined volume of containerized shipments handled at ports in China hiked 4.4% from the previous year to a record high of 261.07 million TEUs in 2019, according to data compiled by the nation's Mi...
20.01.22
S. Korea-China Container Traffic Grows 5% in '19
Container trade between South Korea and China grew 5.1% from the previous year to 3,176,719 TEUs in 2019, despite concern over a decline in freight movement due to the trade friction between the U....
20.01.21
Container Throughput at Tokyo down 6% in Oct.'19
The Port of Tokyo handled a total of some 300,000 TEUs of loaded containers in October 2019, which went down 6% from a year earlier, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG)'s Bureau of...
20.01.20
Shanghai Continues to Lead World Container Port Rankings
The top 10 container ports in 2019 were Shanghai, China; Singapore; Ningbo-Zhoushan, China; Shenzhen, China; Guangzhou, China; Busan, South Korea; Qingdao, China; Hong Kong; Tianjin, China; and Dub...
20.01.17
Hong Kong Reports Another Year of Decline in Box Traffic in 2019
Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong amounted to 1.579 million TEUs in December 2019, down 5.7% from the same month in 2018, representing a de...
20.01.16
New 2022 Edition of Harmonized System to Start in 2020
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has announced that ''HS 2022,'' which is the seventh edition of the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature used for the uniform classification of goods traded inte...
