Container Throughput Drop at Port of Hong Kong

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Containers handled by the Port of Hong Kong during July totaled 1.197m teu, reflecting a fall of 17.9%.

Drilling down into the figures, the throughput at the Kwai Tsing terminals was down 18.2% at 932,000 teu, as the midstream operators handled 265,000 teu, a reduction of 16.6% compared to July 2022.

The cumulative throughput at the Port of Hong Kong for the first seven months of the year stands at 8.332m teu, a shortfall of 15.8% compared to the same period in...

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Drewry’s Container Port Throughput Indices Reaches Highest Ever Level

  • The Drewry Container Port Throughput Indices are a series of volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 235 ports worldwide, representing over 75% of global volumes.
  • The base point for the indices is January 2012 = 100.

Drewry issues a Global container port throughput indices report of latest assessment.

Highest Ever Throughput Level

In March 2021, the Global Container Port Throughput index climbed to its highest-ever level of 140.8, showing a gain of...

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Global port box throughput comes off-the-boil

New analysis from globally-known shipping analyst Drewry has shown the world port container throughput, and the Oceania region throughput, have both declined slightly from an all time high.

Drewry’s container throughput index, which is based to 100 as at January 2012, hit a peak of 139.6 points in September 2020 and then contracted by 3.4 points (2.4%) in November 2020.

However, it should be noted that the November 2020 figure is still 4.7% higher than the figure seen in November 2019.

Drewry’s...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/global-port-box-throughput-comes-off-the-boil/

Beibu Gulf Port Records Robust Container Throughput

Beibu Gulf Port in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region saw its annual container throughput surpass 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the first time, reports Xinhuahet News.

Robust container throughput

Over the past five years, the port has witnessed robust growth of container throughput at an average annual growth rate of more than 25 percent, according to Beibu Gulf Port Group Co., Ltd.

The company attributed the growth to the accelerated construction of the New...

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Hong Kong suffers decline in box traffic

Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong amounted to 1.579 million TEUs in December 2019, down 5.7% from the same month in 2018, representing a decline for 23 consecutive months.

Containers handled at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals accounted for 1.194 million TEUs, down 0.9%, suffering a year-on-year decrease for 18 months running. Meanwhile, the remaining 385,000 TEUs were processed in midstream operations and at the River Trade Terminal, up 6.3%, enjoying a year-on-year improvement for...

https://container-news.com/hong-kong-suffers-decline-box-traffic/

JNPT sets another container throughput record

State-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has achieved a new container throughput record of approximately 5.11 million TEUs in calendar year 2019, representing a 1.2% increase over the 5.05 million TEUs registered in 2018.

Among the five container terminals in Jawaharlal Nehru Port, four are run by private entities and the port trust itself owns Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT) which handled 0.77 million TEUs in 2019.

Gateway Terminals India (GTI), the facility operated by a...

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