Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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Record of the traffic of the container in the South Korean ports to January
1.806.000 teu (+7.0% are enlivened)
February 6, 2012
Last month the South Korean ports have enlivened a traffic container salary record pairs to 1.806.000 teu, with a progression of 7.0% regarding 1.688.000 teu in January 2011 (month in which the increment had been of +14.3% regarding 1.477.000 teu totaled in January 2010).
The South Korean minister of the Transports has announced that last month the traffic of the container in import and export is piled to 1.059.000 teu, down of 1.1% on January 2011 to cause is of the crisis financial institution in Europe that of the slow down of the Chinese economy and some seasonal factors. The traffic of transhipment has been pairs instead to 699 thousand teu, in increase of 22.9% on January 2011.
Last month the single port of Busan has enlivened 1.365.000 teu (+10.6% on 1.235.000 of January 2011), of which 684,000 teu in import-export (+0.3%) and 671,000 teu in transfer (+23.0%). The port of Gwangyang, instead, has enlivened 174,000 teu (+0.6%), of which 145,000 in import-export (- 2.7%) and 26,000 in transfer (+24.0%), while the port of Inchon has enlivened altogether 145,000 teu (- 12.4%).
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