However, last year's figures were severely impacted by the port strike which lasted through all of April.Compared with the 1.98m teu moved in April 2012, throughput would actually have dropped. Month-on-month volumes also dropped from 1.99m teu in March.
April's figures for the main Kwai Tsing terminals expectedly showed a 14.7% improvement to 1.53m teu however at the non-Kwai Tsing terminals, where some of the boxes may have been diverted during the strike, throughput dropped by 3.1% to 430,000 teu.
Cumulative throughput for the year increased 4.7% to 7.38m teu.
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