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15.07.10
Mid-year Box Traffic at Shanghai Grows 4.5%
Container throughput at Shanghai Port totaled 3.076 million TEUs in June, a slight increase of 0.7% compared to 3.059 million TEUs in the same month last year, or a decline of 2.5% compared to the ...
15.07.09
Business As Usual So Far at Greek Ports
Port operations in Greece seem to be largely unaffected after the nation's rejection of the latest rescue package from creditors, according to Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), The only thing that ...
15.07.09
China's Export Container Freight Index Continues Declining
The China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI) was 845.6 points on average in June, decreasing 4.5% from the previous month, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE). The Shanghai Containeri...
15.07.07
TSA Unveils Additional Rate Hike in August
Member carriers in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) are recommending $600 per 40-foot container (FEU) rate increases on August 1 following the equivalent rate hikes on June 1 and July...
15.07.06
Intra-Asia Box Traffic up 8.6% to 1.317 Mln TEUs in May
Container trade among 13 Asian economies, including Japan, was brisk in May, growing 8.6% year on year to 1.317 million TEUs. Shipments to and from Japan increased in both directions, with imports ...
15.07.02
Guatemala Customs to Require Additional Manifest Information
The Guatemalan Revenue Administration (SAT) will require shipping lines, airlines and freight forwarders to submit additional cargo manifest data, effective on July 14, 2015. The supplementary data...
15.06.30
Ho Chi Minh City Seeks Government Approval to Build Tunnel near Cat Lai Port
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has proposed the central government to implement a project to build an overpass and tunnel on the trunk road leading to Cat Lai Port, in a bid to address chronic traffic con...
15.06.29
Transhipment Boxes at South Korean Ports Rise 6.5% in May
Trade ports in South Korea handled a total of 2.112 million TEUs of containers in May, up 3.3% from the same month last year, according to statistics released by the nation's Ministry of Oceans and...
15.06.26
China's 3 Cargo Airlines to Merge to Create Asia's No 1 Cargo Carrier
China's three largest cargo airlines will merge to create Asia's largest freight transport company, a senior official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) was quoted as saying in Xi...
15.06.25
Kenya Eyes Single Window Customs Process in July
Effective from July 1, 2015, Kenya is introducing a national single window system to streamline importing and exporting processes. The National Treasury has notified stakeholders for the nation's i...
