Container trades
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Regulatory Agencies
Congress drafting law barring ocean carriers from refusing US exports
The Federal Maritime Commission is open to considering a mandate on container carriers to book U.S. exports.
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Maritime
DOT spending $220 million to speed cargo at 18 ports
Port of Virginia gets $20.2 million for container yard expansion.
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News
Sinotrans delivers scary Halloween third quarter results… or does it?
All may not necessarily be as it may first seem in the world of company earnings. Dry bulk, ocean container shipping and logistics company Sinotrans…
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News
MOL Halloween shocker as revenues slump
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) recorded a major drop in revenues in the first half of its financial year as container earnings fell off a cliff…
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News
Solid results reported by intra-Asia ocean box carrier SITC
Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed ocean container carrier SITC (HKEX: 01308) has reported increases in its unaudited third-quarter results despite a global trade slowdown and the…
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News
PORT REPORT: Mega-study reveals Asia and China dominate the commercial maritime world
China's ports are the most connected ports in the whole world, mega-study reveals. Ports elsewhere in Asia flesh out the top twenty. U.S. ports don't…
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PORT REPORT: Up! Up! Up! Chinese ports record first half increase in box throughput
Chinese port throughput volumes (all cargoes) for the first half of 2019 are up 7.3 percent compared to the first half of last year, according…
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Asia-Pacific
Marine container terminal operator threatens longshoremen with mass redundancies
A simmering industrial dispute in Australia burst into fire this morning when maritime box terminal operator DP World Australia used local media to threaten longshoremen…
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Port Report: Strikes intensify as Australia braces for more longshoreman unrest
Waterfront tensions are increasing as the Maritime Union of Australia declares more wharfside strikes around the country.
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News
Port Report: China’s massive growth in ocean box shipping and over-the-road trucking
The scale and growth of China’s domestic over-the-road trucking and international ocean container shipping trade has been revealed in new data from the country’s Ministry…
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