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14.05.07
Intra-Asia Box Volumes Grow 3.6% in Q1
The combined volume of containerized shipments that major shipping companies carried among 13 Asian economies in the first quarter of 2014 increased 3.6% year on year from 3.339 million TEUs to 3.4...
14.05.02
China's Box Throughput Increases 5.5% in March
Ports in China, including Yangshan Deep Water Port, posted a 5.5 percent year-on-year increase in container handling to 16.321million TEUs in March. Seaport throughput grew 6.5 percent to 14.763 mi...
14.05.02
Japan Inks Y4 Bln Grant Pact with Myanmar for Customs Modernization
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a grant agreement (G/A) with the Government of Myanmar to provide grant assistance of up to a total of 3.96 billion yen for assistance f...
14.04.30
Vietnam-Cambodia Border Bridge in Service in July
Construction of the Tan Nam-Mon Chay Bridge, linking border areas between Vietnam and Cambodia will be completed soon and open to traffic in July this year. The project to build the bridge, connect...
14.04.28
IRA Lines to Advance Japan Rate Hike to May 15
The Informal Rate Agreement (IRA), which covers the trade to/from ports in Asia including Japan and ports in the Arabian and Iranian Gulf, has recommended its members to advance a planned rate rest...
14.04.25
China-wide Q1 Port Box Traffic Rises 5.5% to 4.56 Mln TEUs
China's nation-wide ocean cargo totaled 2.62 billion tons in the first three months of the year, up 5.2% over the same period last year. The growth rate shrunk by 4.9 percentage points from the pre...
14.04.25
Saudi Still Requires Pre-shipment Radiation Inspection
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Commerce and Industry has clarified that they will continue to conduct the radiation inspection for the imported goods coming from Japan prior the issuance of a certifica...
14.04.23
Container Cargo from Japan to China Rises 11% in February
Japan exported 1,073,977 tons of containerized shipments to China in February 2014, up 11.2% over the same month last year, according to a report compiled by the Japan Maritime Center (JMC). Inboun...
14.04.23
March Box Traffic up in Los Angeles but down in Long Beach
Container traffic at Port of Los Angeles, in the US state of California, recorded a whopping 34.2% increase year-on-year to 675.274 TEUs in March. Loaded imports went up by 41.5% on the year and ca...
14.04.21
Customs and Tariff Bureau Warns Incorrect Input on AFR
The Customs and Tariff Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Finance has warned shipping lines and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) of inconsistency and incorrect input of cargo manifest infor...
