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In the first trimester the traffic of the container enlivened from terminal COSCO in the port of the Pireo has grown of +9.6%
In terminal SCCT of Port Saïd a bending is recorded of -20,3%
April 18, 2016
In the first trimester of the 2016 managed harbour terminal from Chinese group COSCO Pacific they have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 22,2 million teu, with an increment of +35.0% regarding 16,5 million teu in the first three months last year. The fort increase has had to the effect of the acquisition, completed on March 18, 2016, of the entire share capital of China Shipping Ports Development Co. (CSPD) in the within of the fusion of the activities of group leader COSCO with those of the group at the beginning Lowers put into effect Shipping of this year ( on 18 February 2016).
Taking into consideration the traffic enlivened last year from the terminals of which COSCO Pacific it has acquired the management within such operation of fusion, the volume enlivened in the first three months of 2016 from the terminals of the Chinese group turns out advanced last year of +2.9% regarding the total of the first trimester.
In the first three months of this year the containerized trade enlivened from the Chinese group in the single port of the Pireo through the Piraeus branch Container Terminal (PCT), that it represents 90% about of the containerized trade enlivened altogether in the Greek harbour port of call, has been pairs to 807 thousand teu, with a progression of +9.6% regarding 736 thousand teu in the first trimester of 2015.
Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) of the port of Port Saïd, that it is the other container terminal managed from COSCO Pacific in the Mediterranean, has closed the first trimester of this year with a traffic pairs to 643 thousand teu, with a decrease of the -20,3% regarding 807 thousand teu in the correspondent period of 2015.
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