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22.05.20
MLIT Verifies Automation Technology for Port Chassis Management
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan’s Hokuriku Regional Development Bureau has verified the technology of high-efficiency unit-load terminals in preparation ...
22.05.20
Labor, Management Call for Recess, Suspension of Sunday Strike
The Japan Harbor Transportation Association (JHTA) on Thursday resumed its sixth central collective bargaining session of the spring of 2022 port and harbor wage negotiations with the National Fede...
22.05.19
Containers to/from China Slightly Decrease in April
The total volume of containerized shipments processes at Chinese ports in April amounted to 23.66 million TEUs, going down 0.5% from a year earlier, according to the nation’s Ministry of Transport ...
22.05.19
Throughput at Savannah Grows 6.2% to 496K TEUs in April
The U.S. port of Savannah handled 495,782 TEUs of containers last month, up 6.2% from a year earlier. It was a record for the month of April and the Georgia Ports Authority’s third busiest month ev...
22.05.19
Effectiveness Confirmed of Hanshin-H.K. Consolidated Transport of Agricultural Products
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan’s Kinki Regional Development Bureau have conducted two trials on the transport of consolidated shipments at sea to promot...
22.05.18
Market for Container Exports from China Steady
The market for container exports from China steadily recovered after the nation’s Labor Day holidays on May 1-5. The composite Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), an index for spot rates f...
22.05.17
L.B. Port Handles 820K TEUs Last Month, Sets New April Record
The U.S. port of Long Beach in California handled 820,718 TEUs of containers in April, which swelled 10% from the corresponding month of last year and set a new April record. Imports of loaded cont...
22.05.17
Int'l Containers to/from Shimizu Down 7.3% to 37,291 TEUs in April
The Port of Shimizu in Japan processed 46,196 TEUs of international and domestic containers in April, which went down 9.9% from a year earlier, according to preliminary statistics. International sh...
22.05.16
Panama Canal's Neopanamax Lock Draft Raised Back to 50Ft.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has raised the draft of the Neopanamax locks at the Panama Canal back to 50 feet (15.24 meters), which was restricted to 49.5 feet (15.09 meters) on March 24. The c...
22.05.13
Shipping Schedule Reliability Improves for 3 Consecutive Months in April
The composite schedule reliability index for the services that 14 shipping companies operated in April on nine leading trade lanes from Asia and one trans-Atlantic lane improved by 0.06 percentage ...
