Container trades
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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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Asia-Pacific
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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Asia-Pacific
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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Maritime
U.S. regulators see container trade overcapacity posing no dangers
Shippers benefit as transportation rates expected to stay low.
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Asia-Pacific
Japanese ocean carrier K-Line boots board members after huge losses
Tokyo, Japan-based ocean carrier, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha http://kline.com/ (TYO:9107) has recorded a fall in revenues of Japanese Yen of 325,293 million down to JPY 836,731…
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Container
The future of the Panama Canal: What’s next for container shipping
In the second-part of its series on the Panama Canal, FreightWaves interviews a canal authority executive on trends for container-ship transits and expectations for ship…
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Maritime
Breakfall: ocean box rates flat after big slump
It’s a game of several parts as Drewry Shipping Consultants' World Container Index indicates that rates are marginally down by 0.3 percent compared to the…
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Asia-Pacific
Marine terminal operators sting Australian shippers, truckers with huge surcharges
Australia’s import, export and logistics industries are in dismay at a massively escalating series of surcharges that are being unilaterally charged to truckers and shippers…
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Asia-Pacific
Hong Kong’s first quarter 2019 box volumes plummet
There has been a steep drop in the volume of box traffic handled at Hong Kong, one of the world’s busiest box ports. Containerized throughput…
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Asia-Pacific
Six percent increase in global box throughput for port operator China Merchants
Global mega-box port operator China Merchants Port Holdings recorded a 6 percent increase in its world box throughput in 2018 compared to the year before.…
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