This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival overlaps with the National Day break, making it a longer holiday than usual and giving people a greater chance to travel. The official holiday starts on September 29, a Friday, and runs until October 6…
READ MORE >Canceled sailings by container lines are having some unforeseen consequences, as schedule unreliability has resulted in increased inventories, higher costs, and now a disruption to backhaul trades (source: SeatradeMaritime News).
READ MORE >Ocean carriers are giving back their recent Asia-North Europe FAK rate increases via heavy discounts for October shipments from China (source: the Loadstar).
READ MORE >US businesses big and small made a fresh push for the Biden administration to remove Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods as the government considers a formal extension on the hundreds of billions of dollars in levies (source: AJOT).
READ MORE >As part of its dismantling of its zero-Covid policy, Beijing has allowed travel in and out of the country, with transport officials also allowing crew leaving or joining ships in China to no longer quarantine. Seafarers coming from overseas must…
READ MORE >Covid restrictions on cross-border trucking between Hong Kong and mainland China were lifted this week. Forwarders are expecting shorter transit times and reduced costs as truck drivers from Hong Kong can now now enter Guangdong for direct shipments (source: The…
READ MORE >In a significant easing of Covid controls, the Chinese government said Wednesday that people will no longer need to show negative virus tests or health codes in order to travel between different parts of the country. Chinese authorities also said…
READ MORE >Ship refueling operations were temporarily halted at South Korea's Busan and Ulsan ports on Tuesday after typhoon Hinnamor hit the country's southern region, trade sources said (source: Reuters).
READ MORE >President Joe Biden said his administration is still discussing possible action on US tariffs on Chinese imports, after Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she expects a decision “shortly.” (source: AJOT/Bloomberg)
READ MORE >China’s largest city has begun returning to normalcy amid the easing of a strict two-month COVID-19 lockdown. Full bus and subway service in Shanghai is being restored, with rail connections to the rest of China to follow (source: AP News).
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