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17.06.07
Saudi Arabia-Led Arab Coalition Bans Trade with Qatar
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen announced on Monday that they were severing diplomatic relations with Qatar, and closed borders with the neighboring country. ...
17.06.06
Intra-Asia Box Volumes Fall for 4th Straight Month
Leading shipping companies moved a total of 992,429 TEUs of container in April among 13 countries and regions in Asia, which fell 6.8% from the corresponding month of the previous year and suffered...
17.06.06
Japan Signs ODA Loan Agreement with Cameroon
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed last week a loan agreement with the Cameroon Government in Yaounde to provide a Japanese ODA loan of up to 5.894 billion yen for the Yaounde...
17.06.05
China Customs to Realize Nationwide Single Window
Pressing ahead with building the Single Window and realizing nationwide integrated customs clearance, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) has taken the lead and worked with other compe...
17.06.02
Japan's Used Vehicle Exports Grow 1.5% in April
The International Auto Trade Association (iATA) recently reported that a total of 111,666 secondhand vehicles (passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses) were exported from Japan in April, which inc...
17.06.01
JIFFA Member Forwarders Handle 112.17 Mln Tons in FY2016
The total volume of international multimodal cargo imported to and exported from Japan in the second half of fiscal 2016 (October 2016-March 2017) increased 10.2% year on year to 59.012 million rev...
17.05.31
Myanmar Launches Inland Barge Transport
Myanmar's Ministry of Transport and Communications has started inland water transport (IWT), a multi-purpose container barge service to transport goods along the Ayeyarwady River and containers in ...
17.05.30
Spanish Dockworkers Call off National Strikes
Spanish dockworkers unions have called off their scheduled strikes in all ports until June 5 2017 as an agreement was reached last week between the stevedore unions and the National Association of ...
17.05.29
S. Korea’s Box Traffic up 8.9% to 2.3 Mln TEUs in April
Trade ports in South Korea handled a total of 2.346 million TEUs of containers in April, increasing 8.9% year on year from 2.154 million TEUs, according to an announcement recently made by the nati...
17.05.29
Asia to US Revenue Indexes Fall in March
The freight rate index for trans-Pacific services bound for the west coast of and interior point intermodal (IPI) destinations in North America fell by 7.47 points from a month earlier to 72.69 poi...
