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17.12.06
FMC Seeks Comments on Revised NSAs, NRAs
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission issued last week a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which would expand flexibility and deregulates NVOCC Service Arrangements (NSAs) and Negotiated Rate Arr...
17.12.06
Qingdao's Automated Terminal Sets New Productivity Record
Qingdao New Qianwan Container Terminal (QQCTN) in Qingdao Port has recently achieved a record average crane productivity of 39.6 moves per hour with seven ship-to-shore (STS) cranes handling a tota...
17.12.04
Intra-Asia Containers Surge 13.2% in Oct
Major shipping lines moved a total of 1.11 million TEUs of containers in October among 13 countries and regions in Asia, which surged 13.2% from a year earlier and marked a year-on-year increase fo...
17.12.04
Used Vehicles Export Tops 1 Mln Units Mark in Jan-Oct
A total of 111,457 used vehicles (i.e., passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses) were exported from Japan in October, which rose 3.5% from a year earlier and enjoyed a year-on-year increase for 12...
17.11.30
India's Box Volumes Rise 6.5% in H1 of FY2017/18
The Indian Ports Association (IPA) recently announced that India’s 11 state-run ports handled a total of 5.244 million TEUs of containers in the seven months from April to October, which increased ...
17.11.28
Jan-Oct Containers Exceed 20 Mln TEUs in S. Korea
A total of 1.18 billion tons of cargo was handled at trade ports in South Korea in the first 10 months (January-October) of this year, which increased 5.5% year on year from 1.119 million tons, acc...
17.11.27
JIFFA Members Make New Export Cargo Record in H1 of FY2017
Members of the Japan International Freight Forwarders Association (JIFFA) moved from Japan to other economies a total of 22.18 million revenue tons (RTs) of international multimodal cargo in the fi...
17.11.24
Chinese Ports Handle 197 Mln TEUs in Jan-Oct
Ports in China handled a total of 19.997 million TEUs of containers in October, which increased 8.2% from a year earlier, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). Container throughput...
17.11.21
Japan-China Cargo Volumes Fall Slightly in Sept
The Japan Maritime Center (JMC) recently reported that in September, 845,111 tons of containers were exported from Japan to China. Due to decreases in wood pulp and waste paper, the total declined ...
17.11.21
TSA Revenue Index Declines Again in Sept
The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) recently unveiled the TSA Revenue Index—which regards June 2008 as the baseline month with a value of 100 points—for shipments bound for the west coas...
