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18.07.20
Pirate Incidents in Asia Hit Lowest in 10 Years in H1 2018
According to a half-year report released by the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre (ISC), 40 incidents ha...
18.07.19
H1 Box Traffic at Kaohsiung Port Remains Unchanged
The Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan handled 2,622,238 TEUs in the second quarter of the year, up 2.3% from a year earlier. For the first six months of 2018, container throughput at Taiwan’s gate port r...
18.07.18
Shanghai Container Volumes Top 20 Million TEUs in Q1
China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) unveiled on July 17 that containers moved to and from the nation in the first half (January-June) increased 5.4% year on year to set a new record of 121.044 mill...
18.07.17
Chinese Box Ports to Account for Half of Top 20 in 2018
The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) recently unveiled its projection for the 20 busiest container ports in the world in 2018. It is anticipated that Chinese ports will account for a half of the to...
18.07.17
S. Korea's Shipping Business Index Goes up
The Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) recently unveiled the Business Survey Index (BSI) for the shipping business in general, which had been calculated from surveying 96 compatriot shipping companies,...
18.07.12
India’s State-run Ports Handle 6.4% More Boxes in April-June
India’s 11 state-run ports handled a total of 2.404 million TEUs of containers in April-June, growing 6.4% year on year, according to the Indian Ports Association (IPA). By port, Jawaharlal Nehru P...
18.07.11
US Retail Imports Predicted to Top 10 Mln TEU Mark
Driven by increasing consumer demand and rising retail sales, imports at the U.S.'s major retail container ports are expected to set a new record this month even though new tariffs on goods from Ch...
18.07.10
Spot Rates from Shanghai Remains Nearly unchanged in Week 27
In Week 27, freight rates for exporting containerized shipments from China went up and down mildly on many trade routes, although transport demand was stable. The Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) u...
18.07.06
Electronic Filing of New In-bond Transactions Mandatory Aug 6 in US
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) no longer accepts paper forms (CBP Form 7512) for in-bond reporting into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system effective July 2, 2018. Electroni...
18.07.05
India Set to Annul Right of First Refusal Benefit
India's Directorate General of Shipping (DGS) is mulling over removing a notorious Right of First Refusal (RoFR) perquisite granted by the government to local shipping lines to carry export-import ...
