The poor figures were from plunging volumes at the mid-stream terminals as the main Kwai Tsing terminals still saw a 4% rise in volumes to 1.34m teu.
The non-Kwai Tsing terminals however saw throughput plunge 16% to 420,000 teu. This could be due to seasonal weather effects as Hong Kong was battered by two major typhoons in August which would have affected the operations of the mid-stream operators more.
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