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18.05.09
Australia Eyes Biosecurity Levies for Imports from July 1, 2019
The Australian government is mulling over implementing biosecurity levies on all import containers into Australia from July 1, 2019. The new levies aim to enhance Australia's animal and plant healt...
18.05.08
Swissterminal Group to Introduce Direct Link to Antwerp
Schweizerzug, a rail service offered by the Swiss-based logistics provider Swissterminal Group, is launching a new direct connection between Frenkendorf/Basel and the Port of Antwerp on July 2, 201...
18.05.08
Box Throughput at Port of NY/NJ Rises 9.6% in Q1
Container throughput at the Port of New York and New Jersey totaled 1,680,361 TEUs in the first quarter of 2018, representing a 9.6% increase compared to 1,533,004 TEUs in the same period last year...
18.05.07
Myanmar's AWPT Starts Operation of New Equipment
Asia World Port Terminal (AWPT), developed, managed and operated by Asia World Port Management Company Limited (AWPM) and one of the players providing professional port services in Myanmar, has com...
18.05.07
Q1 Air Cargo volume growth 4.8%, WorldACD reporting
According to the study report of WorldACD, the world's largest air cargo market database, the worldwide air cargo yield dropped to a level of USD 1.89 in March 2018, 1% below February 2018, and 16....
18.05.02
Drewry: Asia to Australasia upwards by 1% last year to 2.6 mil TEU
Demand from Asia to Australasia stagnated in the second half of 2017; early 2018 numbers are more encouraging although rates are falling, Drewry Shipping Consultants reports. Southbound container t...
18.05.01
Schedule reliability decreases to 58% in March
Multi-Carrier shipping information platform, CargoSmart analyzes schedule reliability each month to provide shippers and logistics service providers with insights about their ocean carriers’ perfor...
18.04.27
South African 24H Rule sets grace period to end July
According to Hapag-Lloyd’s information, South African Customs Authoritie’s implementation of the 24 hour filing prior to loading at the port of loading or transshipment has been set a grace period ...
18.04.26
FMC investigating canceled door deliveries
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission said April 23 that it has launched an inquiry into complaints from some U.S. cargo owners that “some ocean carriers are unilaterally changing service contract t...
18.04.25
Korea ExImBank pledges $753M to shipping industry
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea ExImBank) on Friday promised 800 billion won (US$753.29 million) in loans and guarantees to the local shipping industry this year as the government acts on a ...
