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17.03.24
Philippines's Laguna Dry Port Certified As Customs Facility
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) of the Philippines has certified the Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal (LGICT), the dry port container handling facility of International Container Terminal Servi...
17.03.23
Spanish Dockworkers Cancel Their Planned Strikes
Spanish dockworkers unions led by the State Coordinator of Sea Workers (CETM in Spanish) have called off their scheduled strikes as the parliament failed to give nod to the government's proposed re...
17.03.22
Container Volumes in China Rise 7.8% in February
Trade ports in China handled a total of 14.273 million TEUs of containers in February, which increased 7.8% from the corresponding month of 2016, according to an announcement made on March 14 by th...
17.03.21
FIATA, CLECAT Express Concern about Capacity Shortage
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT) have been deeply concerned about ...
17.03.21
Global Box Trade Expanding despite Fall in Freight Index
Container Trades Statistics Ltd. (CTS) of the U.K. recently unveiled that a total of 13.451 million TEUs of containers were traded worldwide in January, which increased 9.5% from a year earlier. Gl...
17.03.17
Japan-China Trade Value Dips for Two Consecutive Years
The total value of trade between Japan and China decreased 0.6% to slightly over US$301.6 billion in 2016, suffering a year-on-year contraction for the second consecutive year, according to a repor...
17.03.17
Hong Kong Box Throughput Expands 12.7% in February
Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong soared 12.7% from a year earlier to 1.436 million TEUs in February, marking an increase for seven consecutive months. Throughput at the main Kwai Tsing...
17.03.16
Feb. Box Traffic at Shanghai, Singapore Marks Contrast
Shanghai International Port (Group) Co. (SIPG) unveiled that container volumes at Shanghai port rose 2.3% on year to 2.59 million TEUs in February 2016, against 2.59 million TEUs in 2016. For the f...
17.03.14
Myanmar Study Looks at Port Data Exchange
A feasibility study looking into the possible expansion of the Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network (NEAL-NET) has been undertaken in Myanmar, as part of a project co-funded by the ...
17.03.13
India Gives Nod to UN TIR Convention
The Indian government has approved its accession to the UN TIR Convention, the global standard for international freight customs transit. This decision will facilitate goods transport and transit, ...
