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Unstoppable the decrease of the traffic of the container in the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong
Last month they have enlivened respective 2,5 million teu (- 10.5%) e1,6 million teu (- 9.6%)
February 15, 2016
The decrease of the traffic of the container enlivened from the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong appears unstoppable, two primary harbour ports of call that practically from the beginning of the phenomenon of the containerizzazione of the commercial exchanges for marine way they are between the leaders of the market in Asia and the world.
Also to January 2016, for the eleventh consecutive month, the port of Singapore has recorded a contraction of the containerized volumes having enlivened almost 2,5 million teu, with a decrease of the -10,5% (seventh consecutive decrease to two figures percentages) regarding 2,8 million teu to January 2015. Last month to Singapore the traffic of the container has not turned out decreasing single, than in terms of weight it has been pairs to 26,9 million tons (- 7.5%): the conventional volumes of goods have accused in fact an important bending also (2,2 million tons, -13,3%), of oil (14,1 million tons, -14,4%) and of not oil bulk (1,4 million tons, -17,5%).
Light less emphasized it has been the reduction of the traffic of the container enlivened last month from the port of Hong Kong, that it has totaled a traffic pairs to beyond 1,6 million teu with a decrease of the -9,6% on January 2015 that constitutes the nineteenth decrease marked salary from the Chinese harbour port of call.
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