Shanghai, the world's largest container port, recorded 2.73m teu of throughput last month, an increase of 24.7% month-on-month. Boxes handled also rose 3.4% year-on-year compared to 2.64m teu seen in March 2011.
In the first quarter this year, the Chinese port moved 7.54m teu of containers, up 3.6% from 7.28m teu in the same period of last year.
Shanghai was ranked the world's number one container port last year by posting 31.7m teu of throughput.
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