SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s airfreight exports jumped to account for 36 percent of the country’s overall exports last year, industry data showed Tuesday, on higher demand for chips and biohealth products. Of the country’s combined exports of US$512.5 billion in 2020, air transport accounted for $183 billion, according to the data [...]
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SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The airline industry, facing one of an almost existential crisis posed by the coronavirus, is making unexpected progress in the shipping sector. Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top flag carrier, said Sunday that its international shipping in April reached 104.6 tons, up by 12 percent from last year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 shipowning company managers said they are likely to order new ships within the next 12 months, according to an industry report, in a sign that the maritime sector sees light at the end of the tunnel. SMM, the leading international maritime trade fair that takes [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Tuesday they indicted two international auto shipping companies for fixing bid prices for sea transportations of Korean-made automobiles. Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, also known as the Japan Mail Shipping Line, and the Seoul-based multinational EUKOR Car Carriers Inc. have been charged with colluding with a few other firms [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday vowed to build a stronger maritime nation by bolstering its economic and military powers at sea. As part of the efforts, he promised to establish a public corporation to provide financial assistance to the nation’s ailing shipping and shipbuilding industries, and revive their global [...]
BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Port of Busan, South Korea’s largest port, was marginally outstripped last year by the Port of Hong Kong, conceding the title of the fifth-busiest container port in the world, namely on account of the Hanjin Shipping crisis. The South Korean port ranked sixth globally in 2016, processing 19.43 [...]
BUSAN, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Container cargo handled at South Korea’s biggest port of Busan has edged up over the past eight months despite the demise of Hanjin Shipping Co., once the country’s No. 1 shipping firm, data showed Tuesday. Container cargo processed at the southeastern port came to 13.05 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SM Group will acquire more companies, including overseas shippers, to beef up its status in the sector, its chief said Monday. The midsized South Korean shipping group has been taking over a series of financially troubled companies over the past few years, to emerge as a major player in [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., a major shipping line in South Korea, said Thursday that it has signed a deal for strategic cooperation with a global shipping alliance, paving the way for the company to better compete with rivals. In December last year, Hyundai Merchant agreed with Maersk Line, Mediterranean [...]