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14.09.09
Japan's 2013 Box Throughput Grows 1.4% to 17.766 Mln TEUs
The Harbor Modernization Promotion Committee has reported that 64 container ports in Japan handled a total of 17,765,642 TEUs of containers in 2013, going up 1.4% from the previous year. The Big Fi...
14.09.08
Ghana Appoints Bureau Veritas for Imports Verification
Ghanaian Authorities has appointed French testing, inspection and certification (TIC) group Bureau Veritas, to launch the Verification of Conformity program applicable to exports to Ghana from Octo...
14.09.05
Taiwan Gives Nod to Multi-country Consolidation
Taiwanese authorities recently have passed a law which will allow freight forwarders to operate multi-country consolidation. This means that forwarders can consolidate exports to multiple destinati...
14.09.05
NACCS, Myanmar Customs Ink Deal on E-Customs
Nippon Automated Cargo And Port Consolidated System, Inc., known as NACCS which provides a system dedicated to electronic customs processing of air/sea cargo, and Myanmar's Customs Department of th...
14.09.03
Philippines Sets Sept. 8 Deadline to Remove Boxes in Manila Ports
Philippines’ Cabinet Cluster on Port Congestion (CCPC) has instructed importers and brokers in the country that unclaimed customs-cleared containers in Manila ports be ransferred to ports in Subic ...
14.09.01
South Korea's Box Trade Grows 3.4% in July
South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has announced that containerized shipments handled at South Korea's seaports increased 3.4% from a year earlier to 1.995 million TEUs in July. Import-...
14.08.29
NEAL-NET Launches Container Information Service
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan announced on Aug. 25 that a service had been launched for providing information on container logistics, allowing users to...
14.08.29
Intra-Asia Container Traffic Grows 5% in H1
Combined volume of containerized shipments moved by major shipping lines among 12 Asian economies increased 5.1% year on year from 1.231 million TEUs to 1.295 million TEUs in June. Exports from Jap...
14.08.28
US West Coast Labor Talks Move One Step Forward
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) announced Tuesday that they have reached a tentative agreement on terms for health benefits, subjec...
14.08.28
Tripartite Logistics Ministers Meeting Adopts ''Yokohama Declaration''
Japan, China and the Republic of Korea agreed to join forces to realize a seamless logistics system, develop eco-friendly logistics services and achieve a good balance between safety and efficiency...
