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Hong Kong port throughput continues to slide in May

Hong Kong port's container throughput continued to slide in May, falling 10.5% to 1.84m teu from 2.06m teu in the same period the year before.

Vincent Wee, Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

June 18, 2013

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Although this was a 6.4% rise from the 1.73m teu handled the month before, the April number was slightly skewed by the fact that the terminals operated by Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT) had suffered from a strike for much of the reporting period.

Throughput at the midstream operations at non-Kwai Tsing terminals fell 19.8% from the year before to 410,000 teu while at the Kwai Tsing terminals boxes handled fell 7.4% to 1.43m teu.

For the year-to-date, container throughput at 8.84m teu is 9.1% lower than the corresponding period last year.

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About the Author

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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