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18.03.22
China Box Throughput Grows 8.9％ to 16.7 Mln in Feb
Ports in China handled a total of 16.742 million TEUs of containers in February, which improved 8.9% year on year, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). Throughput grew at both coa...
18.03.22
GMS Countries Sign MoU for Transport Facilitation
Transport ministers from Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries - Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 15, 2018 on the implem...
18.03.20
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Continues to Decline
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) fell 7.4 percent since last Friday's reading of 729.49 to a reading of 675.46 due to dull demand after the week-long Spr...
18.03.19
Intra-Asia Box Traffic Surges 19.9% in Jan
The combined volume of containerized shipments that leading shipping lines moved in January among 13 countries and regions in Asia grew 19.9% from a year earlier to 863,000 TEUs, enjoying a year-on...
18.03.19
Yokohama Reports 5.3% Gain in 2017 Box Throughput
The Port of Yokohama processed 114.87 million tons of shipments in 2017, which increased 5.3% from the previous year and registered the first year-on-year in five years, according to preliminary po...
18.03.15
Japan and Thailand Agree on Yen - Baht Direct Exchange
The Ministry of Finance of Japan and the Bank of Thailand have recently signed the Memorandum of Cooperation for the establishment of a Framework for Cooperation to promote the use of local currenc...
18.03.14
Ex-Shanghai Container Spot Rates Continue to Fall
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) announced on March 9 that the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index was 729.49 points, which went down 5.6% from the previous week due to lack of demand as facto...
18.03.13
Containerized Exports from Asia to US Hit All-time High in Feb
U.S. research firm Descartes DataMyne unveiled on March 9 that containers from 10 Asian countries and regions to the U.S. surged 20% from a year earlier to 1,311,415 TEUs in February, enjoying a ye...
18.03.12
Japanese Firms' Momentum to Expand Exports Leveling off
A survey has revealed that Japanese firms' motivation to expand exports remains high, though showing signs of levels off. The survey on the International Operations of Japanese Firms was conducted ...
18.03.09
WCO Finalizes 2018 SAFE Framework of Standards
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has announced that the 19th meeting of the SAFE Working Group (SWG), recently held at the its headquarters in Brussels, finalized the 2018 SAFE Framework of Sta...
