Throughput at the main Kwai Tsing terminals fell 10.7% to 1.3m teu while at traffic from mid-stream operations fell 17.1% to 400,000 teu.
Hong Kong suffered one of its longest port strikes last month, with the 40-day stoppage at Hutchison's Hongkong International Terminals reportedly seeing some 100 vessels diverted to other ports during the period.
Hong Kong's container throughput has seen a poor first quarter with only a slight 2.8% year-on-year increase posted in January. Figures for all other months have declined from the year before.
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