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19.01.08
Busan Port Predicts Record Box Throughput for 2018
It is estimated by the Busan Port Authority (BPA) that container throughput at the Port of Busan grew 5.8% year on year to 21.67 million TEUs, clearing it goal of handling 21.5 million TEUs and est...
19.01.08
Ex-Shanghai Spot Rates Grow 3.3% Last Week
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange's Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) climbed 3.3% to a reading of 940.86 in the week ended Friday, January 4, 2019 as a result of rate hikes successfully imp...
19.01.07
Used Vehicle Exports Expand 4.5% in November
The International Auto Trade Association (iATA) recently unveiled that 117,269 secondhand vehicles (i.e., passenger cars, cargo freighters, busses and electric vehicles) were exported from Japan in...
18.12.28
Box Throughput at Incheon Reaches 3 Mln TEUs
The volume of containerized shipments handled from Jan. 1, 2018 at the Port of Incheon in South Korea reached 3 million TEUs on Dec. 19, eight days earlier than in 2017, according to the Incheon Po...
18.12.27
Box Volumes at Kobe Rise 1.4% to 2.4 Mln TEUs in Jan-Oct
The Port of Kobe handled a total of 2.432 million TEUs of international and domestic containerized shipments in the first 10 months (January-October), up 1.4% year on year on a preliminary-figure b...
18.12.25
Asia-to-Europe Containers Rise 5.5% in Oct
Outbound containers from Asia to Europe increased 5.5% from a year earlier to 1,272,954 TEUs in October, according to the Japan Maritime Center (JMC). Thanks to steadiness in the European economy, ...
18.12.21
Box Volumes from Japan to China Surges 13% in Oct
Exports from Japan to China increased 13.3% from a year earlier to 1,018,374 tons in October, according to a report on container trade between the economies compiled by the Japan Maritime Center (J...
18.12.21
EU Adopts ''No Deal'' Brexit Contingency Action Plan
Given the continued uncertainty in the UK surrounding the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, the European Commission has started implementing its ''no deal'' Contingency Action Plan. The pac...
18.12.20
UK to Remain in Common Transit Convention after Brexit
The U.K. is set to remain in the Common Transit Convention (CTC) after Brexit, ensuring simplified cross-border trade for UK businesses exporting their goods. The CTC is used for moving goods betwe...
18.12.19
Box Traffic to/from Chinese Ports Grows 5% in Jan-Nov
Ports in China handled a total of 229,110,700 TEUs of containers in the first 11 months (January-November) of 2018, up 5.3% year on year, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). Thro...
