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14.07.08
Box Traffic at South Korean Ports Grows 2.7% in May
South Korean ports processed a total of 2.059 million TEUs of containers in May, increasing 2.7% year on year, according to a report compiled by the nation’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. Overa...
14.07.04
ILWU, PMA Continue Talks on New Labor Agreement
Negotiations for a new labor contract covering nearly 20,000 dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports of the U.S. will continue to move forward as the existing, six-year coast-wide labor agreement expire...
14.07.02
Japan's Box Traffic to/from East Asia Surges in 5 Years
Japan handled a total of 17.91 million tons of foreign-trade containers in November 2013, growing 34% from the corresponding month of 2008, according to a nationwide research on cargo throughput at...
14.07.01
Japan, Malaysia Sign AEO Mutual Recognition Pact
Japan Customs signed a mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) of AEO (Authorized Economic Operator) programs with Malaysia in Brussels, Belgium on Friday. For Japan, Malaysia is the seventh MRA count...
14.06.27
EU set to extend liner shipping consortia exemption
The European Commission has extended by another five years until April 2020 the validity of the existing legal framework exempting, if certain conditions are met, liner shipping consortia from EU a...
14.06.26
CBP issues guidelines for possible West Coast strike
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued Cargo Systems Message Service (CSMS) #14-000365 for trade stakeholders, which establishes procedures a possible west coast trade disruption that ...
14.06.26
TSA delays PSS implementation by two weeks
Shipping lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) have delayed the implementation date for their latest peak season surcharge (PSS), originally scheduled to be implemented on June 15...
14.06.23
Korea – China Box Trade Declines 1% in Q1
South Korea and China traded 619,921 TEUs of containerized shipments in the first quarter (January-March) of 2014, declining 1% year on year from 626,055 TEUs, according to a report compiled by an ...
14.06.20
Japan – China Box Traffic Dips in April
Exports of containerized shipments from Japan to China totaled 1,047,802 tons in April, declining 6.7% from a year earlier, according to a report compiled by the Japan Maritime Center (JMC) on cont...
14.06.19
Box Traffic at World Top 3 Ports Grows Steadily
The world’s Big Three container ports all achieved steady growth in throughput in May. The Port of Shanghai handled 3.017 million TEUs, increasing 2.8% from a year earlier from 2.94 million TEUs bu...
