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the port of Columbus enlivens for the first time beyond five million container in a year
In the first eleven months of the 2015 containerized trade it has grown of +5.9%
December 22, 2015
The cingalese port of Columbus has for the first time reached a volume of enlivened million traffic five teu in a year. The record is celebrated yesterday to Jaya Container Terminal to the presence of the minister to the Ports and the shipping, Arjuna Ranatunga.
In the first eleven months of the 2015 Asian port it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 4.742.652 teu, with a progression of +5.9% regarding 4.480.318 teu enlivened in the period January-November last year. The single traffic of transhipment, that it constitutes 76.6% of the total, has recorded an increase of +5.1%, while the national traffic is gone up of +8.3%.
In the first eleven months of this year the total traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Columbus has been almost 67,3 million tons (+3.9%).
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