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15.02.03
Box Throughput in Korea Grows 5.4% to 24.7 Mln TEUs in 2014
South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries unveiled last week the nation’s container ports handled a total of 24.733 million TEUs in 2014. The total rose 5.4% year on year from 23.469 million T...
15.02.02
Myanmar Tops a List Ranking Japan's Used Cars Export
Japan exported a total of 1,283,581 secondhand motor vehicles last year, according to country-by-country statistics compiled by the International Auto Trade Association (iATA). The total grew 10.4%...
15.02.02
Kobe Begins Trial Transport of Strawberries by Sea to HK
The city of Kobe's Industry and Agriculture Promotion Bureau is now working on a trial basis to transport local strawberries by sea to promote them in Hong Kong. The trial transport project is bein...
15.01.30
OECD Eyes International Freight to Quadruple by 2050
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said Tuesday in its ITF Transport Outlook that in the face of shifting global trade patterns, international freight transport volum...
15.01.28
EU's Proposal on '24-Hour Rule' Requires NVO's Advance Filing
The European Commission has been working to rewrite the European Union's advance cargo data reporting requirements for quite a while, and is now in the final stages of completing its proposal as pa...
15.01.28
Eastbound Transpacific Box Volumes Hit Record in 2014
Container trade from 18 countries and regions in Asia to the U.S. increased 5.9% from a year earlier to 14,652,096 TEUs in 2014, reaching an all-time high for the time in seven years, or since 2007...
15.01.26
Japanese Manufacturers See Business Expansion in Europe
Motivation in Japan's manufacturing industry toward business expansion in Europe returns to level from before financial crisis Between October and November 2014, the Japan External Trade Organizati...
15.01.23
South California Ports See Third-Busiest Year Ever
Container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles increased 6 percent in 2014 over the previous year, with total volumes reaching 8,340,065 TEUs. It was the third busiest year in the port's history, jus...
15.01.22
Parcel Delivery by Sea to Shanghai Faces Significant Delay
Japan Post announced on Jan. 19 that there is a major delay in mail and parcel delivery by sea to Shanghai and other municipalities in China. A notable increase in mail imports to the Port of Shang...
15.01.21
Vancouver Container Truckers Warn Strike on Feb. 1
Members of the Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers’ Association (VCTA), British Columbia’s largest union representing container truck drivers in Port Metro Vancouver, and the United Truckers Associ...
