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15.12.10
AADA Lines Unveil Business Plan for 2016
Member lines of the Asia - Australia Discussion Agreement (AADA) have agreed to adopt the following rate restoration guideline in 2016 as follows:- For annual contract: RR of US$500 per TEU and US$...
15.12.09
JFTC Predicts Japan’s Imports Increase in FY2016
Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. (JFTC) recently announced that it foresees the total value of exports from Japan (on a customs-cleared basis) will increase 2% from a year earlier to \77.387 trill...
15.12.08
NYK Unveils Report on Global Containership Market
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK)’s Research Group on Dec. 4 unveiled the 2015 edition of its annual report on the global containership market. The shipping giant projects the ongoing widening of the gap b...
15.12.07
6 Billion-Baht Laem Chabang Project Initiated
The Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) has initiated a six billion Baht (US$167.2 million) project to expand container handling capacity and develop a container transfer system by rail at Laem Chaban...
15.12.04
Bangalore-Chennai Box Train Link to Be Launched
A new container train service is to be launched between an inland container depot (ICD) of Marigold Logistics Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore and container terminals in Chennai Port at an initiative of Chen...
15.12.03
AADA Announces 2016 Business Plan for Japan to Australia Cargo
Member lines of the Asia-Australia Discussion Agreement (AADA) has advise the trade they have agreed to adopt the following rate restoration guideline in 2016 for shipments from Japan to Australia:...
15.12.02
Intermodal Cargo Traffic by JIFFA Members Dips 4.5% in H1
Members of Japan International Freight Forwarders Association Inc. (JIFFA) moved a total of 52.45 million tons of international multimodal shipments to and from Japan in the first half of fiscal 20...
15.12.01
Wood Packing Material Details Mandatory in Brazil
Based on International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures - ISPM No.15, the Brazilian Customs and Port Authorities will update their system, introducing wooden packing material as mandatory infor...
15.11.30
Vietnam’s 2014 Box Traffic Tops 10 Mln TEUs
Ports in Vietnam processed a total of 10,009,364 TEUs of containers in 2014, according to a report compiled by the Vietnamese Seaports Association (VPA). The annual container throughput surged 18.4...
15.11.27
Rotterdam Dockworkers Vote in Favor of Strikes
Dockworkers at the Port of Rotterdam are set to go on a series of 24-hour strikes in December and January in protest at potential job cuts, which may paralyze Europe’s largest port. The union membe...
