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Hong Kong box volume slides 8.5% in MarchHong Kong box volume slides 8.5% in March

Hong Kong: Hong Kong's container throughput continued to slide in March, falling to 1.88m teu, 8.5% lower than the same month the year before.

Vincent Wee, Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

April 16, 2013

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Box volume for the first quarter was also lower, falling 4.6% to 5.43m teu as weaker economic conditions take its toll on trading. Throughput may yet worsen as the impact of an ongoing strike at major terminal operator Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT) kicks in with the April figures.

Sequential volume rose however, rising 26.2% from 1.49m teu in February.

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Vincent Wee

Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

Vincent Wee is Seatrade's Hong Kong correspondent covering Hong Kong and South China while also making use of his Malay language skills to cover the Malaysia and Indonesia markets. He has gained a keen insight and extensive knowledge of the offshore oil and gas markets gleaned while covering major rig builders and offshore supply vessel providers.

Vincent has been a journalist for over 15 years, spending the bulk of his career with Singapore's biggest business daily the Business Times, and covering shipping and logistics since 2007. Prior to that he spent several years working for Brunei's main English language daily as well as various other trade publications.

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