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18.05.16
Transporters Strike at India's JNPT Called off Saturday
Truckers transporting containers to and from India's gate port of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) provisionally called off their four-day strike on Saturday night. The strike had been staged sin...
18.05.16
WTO Intensifies Work for Full Implementation of Trade Facilitation Pact
World Trade Organization (WTO) members intensified work to ensure full implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) at the May 2 meeting of the Committee on Trade Facilitation. The comm...
18.05.14
Kawasaki Box Volumes Set Record in 2017
The Port of Kawasaki handled 85.05 million tons of shipments in 2017, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the city of Kawasaki’s Port and Harbor Bureau. In breakdown, international carg...
18.05.11
Asia to US Box Traffic Swells 1.3% in April
American research firm Descartes DataMyne unveiled on March 9 that 1,236,994 TEUs of containers were moved in April from 10 countries and regions in Asia to the U.S., which increased 1.3% from a ye...
18.05.11
US Retail Imports Growing Despite Threat of Tariffs
Imports at the U.S.'s major retail container ports are expected to grow steadily throughout the summer despite the prospect of heavy tariffs on goods from China, according to the monthly Global Por...
18.05.10
Box Throughput at Phnom Penh Surges 16% in Q1 2018
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port handled 45,831 TEUs in the first quarter of the year, up 16% compared to 39,510 TEUs in the same period last year. Import containers totaled 21,134 TEUs while export ...
18.05.09
Global Container Volumes Grow 1% in March
Container Trades Statistics Ltd. (CTS) of the U.K. indicated in a report it had compiled that 12,425,991 TEUs of containers were traded worldwide in March, up 1% from a year earlier, remaining so f...
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...
