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18.12.07
Vietnam to Adjust Port Charges for Imports/Exports
Vietnam's Ministry of Transport, under Circular No. 54/2018/TT-BGTVT, will adjust charges for loading and unloading containers at the nation's deep-sea ports, effective January 1, 2019. For ports n...
18.12.06
Container Throughput Index Reaches Annual High in Oct
The Container Throughput Index of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the ISL Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics reached an annual high with 134.6 points in October. Th...
18.12.05
Taiwan, Japan Sign AEO Mutual Recognition Arrangement
The Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) on Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) between Taiwan and Japan was signed at the 43rd Taiwan-Japan Economic and Trade Conference held in Taipei on November ...
18.12.05
China Railway Express Moves 920,000 TEUs of Containers
China Railway Express (CRE), an international rail container service between China and Europe, had operated a total of 11,000 trains by the end of October. Linking 45 cities in China with 15 Europe...
18.12.04
Ex-Shanghai Spot Container Rates Dip 1.5% Last Week
Freight rates for exporting containers from China declined on many trade routes last week, as pre-Christmas shipments had reached a peak, and consequently, transport demand had begun weakening. The...
18.12.04
World Trade Outlook Indicator Signals Further Decline in Q4
Trade growth is likely to slow further into the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the World Trade Organization's recent World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) released last week. The most recent W...
18.12.03
Japan's Used Car Exports Swell 10% in Oct
Japan exported 122,704 secondhand vehicles (i.e., gas-powered passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses as well as electric cars) in October, growing 10.1% from a year earlier and posting the first ...
18.11.29
S. Korea-Japan Container Traffic Rises 4% in Sept
Containers traded between South Korea and Japan increased 4% year on year to 161,577 TEUs in September, dramatically coming back from July, when they decreased 1.6%, and August, when they only impr...
18.11.29
S. Korea-China Box Trade Jumps 14.5% in Sept
South Korea's container exports to and imports from China totaled 276,234 TEUs in September, accomplishing a notable improvement of 14.5% from the 241,278 TEUs recorded a year earlier, according to...
18.11.28
JIFFA Members Handle Record 63.5 Mln Tons in H1 of FY2018
Japan International Freight Forwarders Association Inc. (JIFFA) members handled a total of 63.508 million revenue tons (RTs) of international multimodal cargo to and from Japan in the first half of...
