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Hong Kong July box volumes almost flat at 1.98m teu

Hong Kong July box volumes almost flat at 1.98m teu
The traditional mid-summer low of the low season kicked in for the Port of Hong Kong in July, with overall container throughput rising just 1.6% to 1.98m teu from 1.95m teu in July 2013.

While volumes at the main Kwai Ting terminals rose 3.6% to 1.56m teu the usual story at the non-Kwai Tsing feeder terminals transpired with volume falling 5.3% to 420,000 teu. Month-on-month, throughput hardly rose from June's figure, rising barely 1,000 teu although at the non-Kwai Tsing terminals, they rose from 370,000 teu the month before.

For the year-to-date, overall throughput rose 3.5% to 13.13m teu while at the main terminals it rose 7.7% to 10.52m teu.