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Fifth consecutive month of bending of the traffic of the container in the port of Hong Kong
The Singapore port gets ready to return overhead to the ranking of the world-wide ports container
September 17, 2012
The port of Hong Kong has recorded the fifth consecutive month of bending of the traffic of the container having had totaled last month a traffic of 1.946.000 teu, with an important decrease of enlivened 9.2% regarding 2.143.000 teu from Asian port of call in August 2011.
In the first eight months of the 2012 port container has enlivened altogether 15.628.000 teu, with a contraction of 3.7% regarding 16.229.000 teu totaled in the period January-August last year.
The data of the containerized trade enlivened from the port of Hong Kong in the first eight months of this year confirmation the port of call to the third party place in the world-wide ranking of the ports container behind of Shanghai and Singapore, than in the period January-August of the 2012 has enlivened respective 21,3 million and 21,1 million teu, and followed from Shenzhen with 15,0 million teu.
To find as the leadership of the port of Shanghai is threatened by Singapore, than this year it seems being destined to return to occupy the first place of classifies that it had lost in 2010: the difference between the volume of traffic enlivened from the two ports in the entire 2011 was pairs to 1,8 million teu and quickly it has progressively and been lost weight reaching about 150 thousand teu at the end of the period of the first eight months of 2012.
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