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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...
17.05.25
Philippines Mulls PSI for Containers
The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) is mulling over the implementation of so-called pre-shipment inspection (SI) for containerized shipments imported into the county by extending the existing Lo...
17.05.23
Qingdao Container Terminal Goes Fully Automatic
With the berthing of COSCO Shipping Lines' 13,386-TEU ''COSCO France'' on May 11, full automatic container terminal operations have been commissioned at Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal (QQCTN). ...
17.05.19
Japan-China Box Volumes Mark Robust Gains in March
The Japan Maritime Center (JMC) announced on May 17 that 1,155,644 tons of containerized shipments were exported from Japan to China in March, which surged 12.7% year on year. They increased notabl...
17.05.19
Korea-China Trade Sees Brisk Box Traffic in Jan-Apr
The accumulated number of passengers travelling between South Korea and China in ferry services in the first four months (January-April) plunged 12.7% year on year to 443,028 under the influence of...
17.05.18
Hong Kong Box Traffic Expands 10.0% in April
Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong rose 10.0% from a year earlier to 1.739 million TEUs in April, marking a year-on-year increase for the three consecutive months. Throughput at the main...
