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22.08.03
SCFIs Fall on All Routes; Composite Index Sinks for 7 Straight Weeks
Freight rates for container exports from China fluctuated bearishly in Week 30 due to inflation and belt-tightening policies across the globe. The composite Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SC...
22.08.02
FMC to Reorganize Functions after OSRA Goes into Effect
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is reorganizing its investigative and prosecution functions by consolidating them into a Bureau of Enforcement, Investigations and Compliance (BEIC) effec...
22.08.01
FMC Moving Quickly in Implementing OSRA 2022
The open session at a July 27 meeting of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) provided the public with an accounting of the progress being made implementing the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (...
22.08.01
NX Think Tank: Freight Movement Indices All Turn Negative in Apr.-June
NX Logistics Research Institute and Consulting said late last month that the freight movement indices for exports and imports of oceangoing containers and international airfreight all turned negati...
22.07.29
COMPAS to be Used for 1st Time at Tokyo Port
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG)'s Bureau of Port and Harbor, Tokyo Port Terminal Corp. and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)'s Kanto Regional Development Bu...
22.07.28
Kawasaki, Yokohama to Develop Japan's Largest Hydrogen Supply Chain
The cities of Yokohama and Kawasaki reached an agreement on Tuesday to work together to use hydrogen and other next-generation energy resources more extensively to maintain and upgrade their indust...
22.07.27
Ex-China CTR. Exports in Week 29
Container exports from China remained dull in Week 29, as it is hard to project how the Chinese economy will grow in the second half of this year due domestic and international negative factors, su...
22.07.27
Japan-China CTR. Trade Shrinks 8.4% Outward, Increase 6.3% Inward in May
Container exports from Japan to China shrank 8.4% year on year to 680,336 tons in May, having incurred a year-on-year contraction for three months in a row, according to statistics compiled by the ...
22.07.26
Japan's Big 6 Ports Handle 1.09 Mil. TEUs in May, Down 2.3%
Japan's six major ports (Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe) handled a total of 1,094,310 TEUs of oceangoing containers in May, which shrank 2.3% from the corresponding month of last...
22.07.25
MLIT Draws Action Plan for Dockworker Shortages
In consideration of dockworker shortages, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has come up with an action plan to address the issue, which consists of measures to take...
