Shipping line CMA CGM has announced a general rate increase (FAK) for shipments from all Asian ports to all ports in Northern Europe (including the UK and the entire range from Portugal to Finland). Lan/Estonia).
The French shipping company said that this new updated FAK rate will take effect from August 15, 2023 (calculated on the date of loading on board at the port of departure) and will be applied to all types of containers. As follows:
Port of departure: all shipments from Asia (including Japan, Southeast Asia and Bangladesh)
Port of destination: all ports of destination in Northern Europe (including UK and full range from Portugal to Finland/Estonia)
Container type: dry cargo containers, overloaded containers, refrigerated containers and empty containers
Applicable FAK rates: 1,150 USD/TEU and 2,100 USD/FEU
On the afternoon of October 1, at the meeting on the socio-economic situation in the first 9 months of 2024, the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City said that many economic indicators have grown steadily. Notably, export turnover is on a recovery trend and has grown.
In the first eight months of 2024, Vietnam earned nearly VND 4 trillion from tea exports, surpassing the total export revenue of last year.
Australia has made another stride in its agriculture sector by announcing an agreement to export plums to Vietnam in the near future, in addition to the current exports of peaches and nectarines. This project is part of a two-way agricultural market access agreement aimed at providing Australian plums to Vietnam and Vietnamese passion fruit to Australia.
On November 14, 2024, the forum "Da Nang Free Trade Zone – A New Driving Force for the Development of the City’s Logistics Industry" successfully took place, attracting dozens of domestic and international enterprises.
On the morning of November 2, 2024, in response to an invitation from the Board of Directors of FPT University Can Tho, Glotrans HCM joined the 2024 Job Fair and Enterprise Connection Day to network with the university’s leaders and interact with the attending students.
On October 29, according to information from the Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines (Ministry of Industry and Trade), total bilateral trade between Vietnam and the Philippines reached nearly USD 6.5 billion in the first nine months of 2024, marking an increase of over 20% compared to the same period last year.**
