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18.08.23
US-China Trade Friction May Prompt China to Lose 3 Million TEUs
A total of 21.61 million TEUs of containers were traded between coastal ports in China and the U.S. in 2017, accounting for approximately 18.6% of all oceangoing containerized shipments moved to an...
18.08.21
Philippines Set to Address Excessive Foreign Shipping Costs
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) is investigating excessive charges imposed by international shipping lines in response to the call from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) which ...
18.08.20
Box Throughput at Taiwan's Big 4 Ports Grows 2.9% in Jan-July
The combined volume of containerized shipments handled at Taiwan's Big Four ports in the first seven months (January-July) of 2018 was 8,886,006 TEUs, growing 2.9% year on year, according to statis...
18.08.20
HK's Box Traffic Marks Six Straight Month of Decline in July
Container throughput at the Port of Hong Kong continued to slide in July, waning 7.9% overall to 1.642 million TEUs, marking the six straight month of decline. Box volumes at the main Kwai Tsing te...
18.08.17
Containers to/from China Rises 4.8% in Jan-July
Ports in China processed a total of 142,844,400 TEUs of containers in the first seven months (January-July) of 2018, which increased 4.8% from a year earlier to reach an all-time high, according to...
18.08.16
Asia-to-U.S. Container Volumes Grow 6.4% in July
U.S. research company Descartes DataMyne recently unveiled that a total of 1,487,235 TEUs of containers were transported to the U.S. from 10 major countries and regions in Asia in July, which grew ...
18.08.15
Agricultural, Forestry, Fishery Exports Grow 15% in H1
The total value of agricultural, fishery and other food products exported from Japan in the first half (January-June) of 2018 was JPY435.9 billion, surging 15.2% year on year, according to prelimin...
18.08.14
US Retail Imports Set Multiple New Records
With U.S. retail sales rising and retailers rushing to bring merchandise into the country ahead of proposed new tariffs on products from China, imports at the nation's major retail container ports ...
18.08.10
Global Container Volumes Rise 2.1% in June
A total of 13,988,069 TEUs of containers were traded worldwide in June 2018, swelling 2.1% from June 2017 and posting a year-on-year improvement for the ninth consecutive month, according to statis...
18.08.10
Argentina Cuts Import Tariffs on Auto Parts
Argentina's Ministry of Production has lowered import duties by 2 percent on more than 130 automotive parts in a bid to strengthen competitive edge in the industry. The move is expected to bring ab...
