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Last month the containerized trade in the port of Long Beach is diminished of -6,2%
In the first ten months of the 2016 4.8% are enlivened 5,7 million teu (-)
November 17, 2016
To October the traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Long Beach has recorded a bending, decrease newly - it has specified the harbour authority of the Californian port of call - that has resulted from the arrest warrant of the activity of the company of South Korean navigation Hanjin Shipping that to september is placed in controlled administration and that last year it guaranteed to the port of Long Beach a traffic quota pairs to about 12.3% of the total enlivened from the port of call. The Port of Long Beach has specified moreover that the harbour operators have decided to dispose the correlated empty park of container to the traffics previously enlivened from the Hanjin to the aim to make available a meaningful number of semitowings to employ for transport in the Californian region.
Last month the port American has enlivened a containerized trade volume pairs to a total of 582 thousand teu, with a contraction of the -6,2% on October 2015. It disembarks and it embarks to it of container full are diminished respective of the -3,7% and the -1,2% to 297 thousand and 127 thousand teu. Container handling empty has been pairs to 158 thousand teu (- 13.8%).
In the first ten months of the 2016 port it has enlivened a total almost 5,7 million teu, with a bending of the -4,8% on the January-October period last year. Handling of container full to the disembarkation is dropped of the -4,0% to 2,9 million teu, while that of container full to the boarding has turned out in light increase of +0.9% to 1,3 million teu. The traffic of the empty containers has been pairs to 1,5 million teu (- 10.3%).
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