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18.11.05
IATA Announces e-AWB As Default Contract of Carriage
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that the electronic air waybill (e-AWB) will become the default contract of carriage for all air cargo shipments on enabled trade la...
18.11.02
Used Vehicle Export from Japan Plunges 17.7% in Sept
The number of used vehicles - i.e., passenger cars, cargo trucks and buses - plunged 17.7% to 90,302 units in September, posting the first year-on-year decrease in 23 months, according to a tally k...
18.11.01
Containers to/from S. Korea Grows 4.3% in Jan-Sept
Oceangoing cargo traded to and from South Korea totaled 1.204 billion tons in January-September, growing 1.7% year on year from 1.183 billion tons, according to preliminary statistics compiled by t...
18.10.30
Ex-Shanghai Container Spot Rates Recover Last Week
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange's Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) climbed 3.3 percent to last Friday's reading of 956.63 from a reading of 926.25 in the previous Friday, as the supply-de...
18.10.29
Japan-to-China Box Traffic Remains Unchanged in Aug
Container exports from Japan to China remained nearly unchanged from a year earlier to 961,075 tons in August, according to a report the Japan Maritime Center (JMC) compiled from trade statistics p...
18.10.26
Asia to US Container Trade Swells 9.3% in Sept
A total of 1,542,450 TEUs of containers were exported to the U.S. from 18 economies in Asia in September, up 9.3% year on year, according to statistics compiled by the Japan Maritime Center (JMC) f...
18.10.25
Containers to/from China Rises 4.9% in Jan-Sept
Ports in China handled a total of 185,976,400 TEUs of containers in January-September, which grew 4.9% from a year earlier and reached a new high for the nine months in question, according to the n...
18.10.25
Shanghai to Ban Dangerous Goods during CIIE 2018
The government of Shanghai has filed a notice to advise that ammunition, explosives, poisonous substances, radioactive materials and other dangerous objects be placed under safe management during t...
18.10.22
Lithuanian Rail, Metrans, Port of Hamburg Strengthen Relations
The Port of Hamburg and Metrans Group are intensifying their links with Lithuanian Railways. Representatives of the three parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Vilnius to strengthen ...
18.10.19
Box Throughput at H.K. down 16.2% to 1.5 Mln TEUs in Sept
The Port of Hong Kong handled 1.513 million TEUs of containers in September, which suffered a double-digit contraction of 16.2% from a year earlier, according to statistics compiled by the Hong Kon...
