News
22.04.26
JCAA to Issue ATA Carnets for Goods to be Used in Vietnam
The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA) will on May 2 begin accepting applications for the issuance of ATA carnets for commodities destined to Vietnam. The carnets will be issued exclus...
22.04.25
Japan’s Box Exports to US Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels in March
Container exports from Japan to the U.S. amounted to 58,408 TEUs in March (based on volumes at ports of destination), swelling 1.2% from the same month of last year and marking year-on-year growth ...
22.04.25
Korea-China Box Trade Shrinks 1.8% in Q1 Due Partly to Shanghai Lockdown
Container trade between South Korea and China decelerated in the first quarter of this year. A total of 800,460 TEUs were moved on the route in January-March, which shrank 1.84% from the correspond...
22.04.21
BIFA Surveys among Members on Current Container Shipping Market
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has announced that a recent survey among its members on the current state of the deep sea container business, which has provided some interestin...
22.04.20
Ex-Shanghai Box Rates Dip on All Routes But to US, Japan
The composite index for container exports from the Chinese port of Shanghai fell 0.8% from the previous week to 4,228.65 points in Week 15. Although it remained on the decline for the 13th week in ...
22.04.20
China’s Q1 Box Throughput Improves 2.4% to 67.38 Mln TEUs
Chinese ports processed a total of 23.79 million TEUs of containers in March, which increased 1.4% from the same month of last year, according to statistics compiled by the nation’s Ministry of Tra...
22.04.18
UK Customs Declaration Service to Replace CHIEF As of Mar. 31, 2023
U.K.'s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is closing the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system on March 31, 2023. The Customs Declaration Service (CDS) is replacing it as the UK...
22.04.18
No Improvement Seen in Disruptions in Shanghai
Ocean Network Express (ONE) updated the situation in Shanghai on Thursday saying no improvement has been seen since its last update on April 6, 2022. Trucking remains limited and the terminals are ...
22.04.15
Russia-Ukraine Conflict Puts Fragile Global Trade Recovery at Risk
Prospects for the global economy have darkened since the outbreak of war in Ukraine on February 24, prompting World Trade Organization (WTO) economists to reassess their projections for world trade...
22.04.13
Ex-Shanghai Spot Rates Go down for 12 Straight Weeks
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), the composite index for spot rates for container exports from the Chinese port of Shanghai, went down 2% from the previous week to 4,263.66 points i...
