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15.05.26
Spot Rates Plunge on Shanghai to Europe Trade
The Shanghai Shipping Exchange announced Friday that the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) dropped 10.8% from the previous week to 676.05 in the week ended on May 22, and the spot rates f...
15.05.26
US West Coast Dockworkers, Employers Ratify New Contract
Dockworkers and maritime employers on the U.S. West Coast gave last week overwhelming approval to the new five-year contract which was agreed tentatively by their representatives in February 2015. ...
15.05.22
CBP Delays C-TPAT Launch for Exporters
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the launch of the Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) for U.S. exporters has been delayed. CBP previously stated that ex...
15.05.20
Hong Kong Box Volumes Continue Declining
Container throughput at Hong Kong Port fell 11.7% year on year to 1.70 million TEUs in April compared to 1.93 million TEUs registered in the corresponding month in 2014, according to the Hong Kong ...
15.05.19
Singapore Box Volumes Drop Two Months in a Row
Container throughput at the port of Singapore fell 5.7% year on year to 2.6 million TEUs in April, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), representing a decline in two con...
15.05.19
Philippine Customs to Open 24-hour Operation at Subic Bay
Philippines' Bureau of Customs (BOC) is launching around-the-clock operation for customs procedures at Subic Bay. The main benefits of the program are, among others, that formalities for import and...
15.05.18
Japan-China Trade Decreases in Both Directions in Q1
Outbound shipments from Japan to China increased year on year quantitatively in March, growing 4.1% to 1,109,466 tons, according to a report on cargo movement between the two Asian economies releas...
15.05.15
US’s C-TPAT Program Open to Exporters from May 17
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) would be available to exporters from May 17, 2015. Potential benefits of the...
15.05.14
Intra-Asia Box Traffic Grows 3.3% in Q1
Container movement among 12 other Asian economies was steady in the first quarter (January-March) of 2015, growing 3.3% year on year to 3.548 million TEUs. However, imports to and exports from Japa...
15.05.13
Box Traffic at Shanghai Grows 3% in April (15-05-12)
Shanghai International Port (Group) Co. has reported box throughput at Shanghai Port totaled 3.11 million TEUs in April, an increase of 3% compared to 3.02 million TEUs in the same month last year....
