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17.11.09
S. Korea-China Box Trade Expands 4.27% in Jan-Sept
The Yellow Sea Liners’ Committee (YSLC) recently unveiled that a total of 2,142,787 TEUs of local and feeder containers were moved between South Korea and China in the nine months from January to S...
17.11.08
Japan's Used Vehicle Exports Grow 17.6% in Sept.
A total of 109,710 secondhand vehicles (i.e., passenger cars, cargo carriers and buses) were exported from Japan in September, which surged 17.6% from a year earlier and registered a year-on-year i...
17.11.06
WCO’s nCEN Application Making Its Mark on Asia Pacific
The World Customs Organization (WCO) completed in October the implementation of its National Customs Enforcement Network (nCEN) application in the fifth country of the Asia-Pacific region, in Sri L...
17.11.02
S. Korea’s Containerized Cargo Rises 5.8％a in Jan-Sept
South Korea’s trade ports handled 1,180 million tons of shipments in the nine months from January to September, which grew 6.4％ year on year from 1,109 million tons. Containerized shipments were b...
17.10.31
IADA Lines Seek Xiamen, South China to Japan Rate Hikes
The Intra-Asia Discussion Agreement (IADA) has recommended its members a rate restoration of $30 per TEU for cargo from Xiamen and South China ports to Japan, effective December 1, 2017. IADA membe...
17.10.31
Vietnam’s Ports Handle 11.09 Million TEUs in 2016
Vietnam’s trade ports handled 11,086,142 TEUs of containers in total in 2016, which remained nearly unchanged from the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the Vietnam Seaports Associ...
17.10.30
Cameroon Becomes 4th Nation to Ratify ''Rotterdam Rules''
The Government of Cameroon recently has deposited instruments of ratification to United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (2008), known...
17.10.27
US House Passes C-TPAT Authorization Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed Tuesday the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Authorization Act of 2017. The bill will now be sent to the Senate for consideration. H.R. ...
17.10.25
Intra-Asia Container Volumes Swell 7.2% in Sept.
Leading shipping companies moved a total of 1.126 million TEUs of containers in September among 13 countries and regions in Asia, which swelled 7.2% from a year earlier and registered a year-on-yea...
17.10.23
Japan's H1 Trade Surplus with U.S. Expands to \3.4 Trillion
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Oct. 19 unveiled preliminary foreign-trade statistics for the first half of fiscal 2017 (April-September). As for the trade balance, it said that Japan enjoyed a su...
