THE price for container truck access through the gates of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach under the PierPass regime will increase 20 per cent to US$60 per TEU from July 4. A year from now, the "traffic mitigation fee" will be "adjusted" annually based on changes in Pacific Maritime Association costs. Other options were considered, reported Londo...
JAPAN's shipbuilders posted a 9.4 per cent increase in export ship orders, totalling 912,142 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA). While year-on-year growth slowed over three months after a 218.5 per cent increase in January, 35.4 per cent in February and 10.9 per cent in March, April was the 17th str...
CHINA Yangtze Estuary Deepwater Channel Regulation Phase III has passed the national final acceptance tests, marking the largest waterway in the history of water transport construction projects after 40 years of research and 13 years of building, reports Xinhua. The estuary channel, featuring a total length of 92.2 kilometres, 350-400 meters wide at...
HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line took first place in the annual ocean carrier performance survey taken among members of the US Agriculture Transportation Coalition (ATC). The ATC votes annually for carriers providing best customer service. The survey is based upon ease of booking cargo, accuracy of documentation and other customer service metri...
China's imports grew faster than expected in May, indicating the country's appetite for commodities remains strong. Imports jumped 28.4 percent year-on-year to reach 144.11 billion U.S. dollars in May, up from April's increase of 21.8 percent, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Friday. Imports of iron ore jumped 8.1 percent from a ye...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Friday that the government has prepared four steps to handle Australia's cattle export halt for six months, the country's largest news portal detik.com reported here. Prior his departure to Bali to open an art event, Yudhoyono said that the first step is that the government is working to ensure suffi...
The Chinese mainland has suspended imports of 948 Taiwanese products, including beverages, food products and food additives that are produced by 280 companies suspected of using a cancer-causing plastic additive, according to a notice issued by the Food Safety Commission on Friday. The Food Safety Commission under the State Council, or cabinet, has ordere...
The Indonesian government will increase live cattle imports from New Zealand and beef from the United States (U.S.) should the domestic meat supply is insufficient. The move came following the ban of live cattle exports to Indonesia by Australia after the cattle cruelty issue in Indonesia's abattoirs, a deputy agriculture minister said here on Friday. ...
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