Container trades
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American Shipper
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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American Shipper
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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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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