SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Tuesday it had completed a pilot project to distribute shipping container Internet of Things (IoT) equipment that had been carried out for two years as part of an initiative to enhance export competitiveness. Under this project, IoT equipment was installed on the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of large companies in South Korea are collecting empty containers for their products from consumers as part of efforts to boost the recycling rate. CJ Cheiljedang Corp., the country’s leading food manufacturer, launched a service to collect the empty containers of its cooked rice product Hetbahn [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of innovative curators across Korea are turning shipping containers into art galleries. At the recently opened Dalha Gallery, the front side of a shipping container has been turned into a show window. To promote culture in the local community, the container gallery was set up to allow [...]
BUSAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Shipping companies using the Busan Port are handing over containers in poor condition to truck drivers for cleaning or repair without proper payment, incurring losses of billions of won each year. Last November, the Busan Port Authority conducted examinations of 9,278 empty containers withdrawn from three terminals at Busan [...]
BUSAN, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An investigation led by the Busan Port Authority (BPA) has revealed that foreign species are flowing into the Busan Port via empty containers shipped from overseas. The BPA conducted a one-month examination of 5,458 empty foreign containers carried out of the port last November. The investigation found live maggots, [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A new investigation has confirmed that there is a serious problem with empty shipping containers arriving at the Port of Busan, which are often found to be in poor condition, doubling the workload for truck drivers, who are responsible for transporting them but also cleaning or repairing them. The [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Empty freight containers shipped to the Port of Busan were in such poor condition that trailer truck drivers were found to take on cleaning and repair duties to maintain the containers. According to an audit that was carried out by the Busan Port Authority, the Busan Regional Office of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The domestic shipbuilding industry was engulfed in a wave of low spirits as shipping publication “Tradewinds” and eBest Investment and Securities (eBest) both reported that French company CMA CGM had signed a letter of intent with two Chinese shipbuilding firms for nine container ships. The reason for the Korean [...]