At the main Kwai Tsing terminals, throughput was 5.7% lower than the year before, falling to 1.4m teu from 1.5m teu the year before. The drop at the non-Kwai Tsing terminals was almost as sharp as the month before, falling 20.9% to 460,000 teu from 581,000 teu in the previous corresponding period.
The figures were bad all around, with volumes falling sequentially as well. Between September and October, throughput was down 2.8%, 2.3% and 4.2% overall, and for the Kwai Tsing and non-Kwai Tsing terminals respectively.
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