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Shanghai container volumes rise in November

Shanghai container volumes rise in November
Shanghai: Shanghai, the world's busiest container port, posted strong box throughput in November of 2.82m teu, an improvement both year-on-year and month-on-month.

Container throughput in November improved 7.2% year-on-year from 2.63m teu registered in the same month of last year. Month-on-month, volumes rose 3.7% from 2.72m teu, according to data from Shanghai International Port (Group).

In the first 11 months of this year, Shanghai handled a total of 29.76m teu, up from 29.11m teu in the corresponding period of 2011.