News
10.02.08
Japan/China Container Traffic Dips 7.8% in 2009
Container trade between Japan and China fell 7.8% year on year to 2,789,950 TEUs in 2009, of which outbound volume from Japan declined a slight 1.7% to 942,453 TEUs while inbound volume from China...
10.02.05
Transpacific Eastbound Boxes Improve Steadily
Container shipments from Asia's 18 countries and territories to the U.S. declined 4.1% on year in November 2009 to 985,000 TEUs, further shrinking the rate of decline to the lowest of the year tha...
10.02.04
Japanese Used Car Exports Halve in 2009
The number of used vehicles exported from Japan almost halved in 2009, totaling 675,858 units, down 49.8% compared with 1,347,026 units in 2008. The record plunge is attributable mainly to a sharp...
10.02.04
Vancouver Bans Dangerous Goods at Two Box Terminals during Olympics
Port Metro Vancouver will implement certain restrictions on dangerous goods operations during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games from February 12 through February 28, though ocean traffic to or from Va...
10.02.03
Intra-Asia Box Volume Declines 3% in 2009
Container shipments between ten Asian countries and territories (Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia) excluding mainland China an...
10.02.02
Spot Rates on China Export Trades Keep Rising
Spot rates for containerized shipments from China continued to rise last week amid pre-holiday rush of export shipments. The China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI) issued by the Shanghai Shippin...
10.01.28
US Customs Set to Enforce ''10+2'' with Flexibility in Initial Stage
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice with regard to the enforcement of Importer Security Filing (ISF) known as ''10+2.'' The notice said CBP is planning to take a ''mea...
10.01.27
Box Throughput at Korean Ports Achieves Strong Growth in Dec
Container throughput at South Korean ports showed a strong rebound achieving a double-digit increase of 18.7 percent in December 2009. Total volume for December stood at 1.549 million TEUs. Busan ...
10.01.27
China - South Korea Box Trade Sees Slight Increase in 2009
Container traffic between China and South Korea showed a slight increase of 1.6% to 337,995 TEUs in 2009 despite such negative factors as the global economic depression and cold weather, according...
10.01.26
Germany Tops World Bank Logistics Performance Index
The capacity of countries to efficiently move goods and connect manufacturers and consumers with international markets is improving around the world, but much more progress is needed to spur faste...
