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Hong Kong container volumes rise 9% in March

Container throughput at the port of Hong Kong rose 8.7% to 1.99m teu in March from 1.83m teu in the same month last year.

Vincent Wee, Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

April 21, 2014

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The main Kwai Tsing terminals saw an 8.3% rise to 1.54m teu while the non-Kwai Tsing terminals saw a 10% spike to 450,000 teu from 409,000 teu previously.

For the year-to-date, the first quarter saw the number of boxes handled creep back up to positive territory with a 2.5% overall gain from the first three months of last year to 5.40m teu. The main Kwai Tsing terminals saw first quarter throughput rise 6% to 4.32m teu.

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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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