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the port of Busan salt to the fifth place in the ranking of the main world-wide ports container
Last year the South Korean port of call has enlivened 20 million teu (+2.7%)
January 25, 2017
The takeover of the port of Busan to the fifth place in the ranking of the main harbour ports of call for container of the world is confirmed. Last year the South Korean port in fact has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 20,0 million teu and in it classifies of the 2016 therefore has placed in the imprisoned position the year precedence from the port of Hong Kong who in 2016 is come down to the sixth place having recorded a containerized trade pairs to 19,6 million teu ( on 16 January 2017).
The traffic of 20,0 million container enlivened last year from the port of Busan represents an increment of +2.7% regarding almost the 19,5 million one teu enlivened in 2015. The single traffic of import and export is piled to 9,8 million teu (+2.2%), while the transfer traffic has turned out pairs almost 10,2 million teu (+3.3%).
The Busan Port Authority (BPA) previews that in the 2017 traffic of transhipment it will record a bending of the -3,0% which effect of the failure of the company of South Korean navigation Hanjin Shipping and of the reorganization of the world-wide alliances constituted by the companies that operate line services.
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The takeover of the port of Busan to the fifth place in the ranking of the main harbour ports of call for container of the world is confirmed. Last year the South Korean port in fact has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 20,0 million teu and in it classifies of the 2016 therefore has placed in the imprisoned position the year precedence from the port of Hong Kong who in 2016 is come down to the sixth place having recorded a containerized trade pairs to 19,6 million teu 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
