the port of Singapore has established the own new record of traffic enlivened in the first semester of the year



Last month the port of Singapore has recorded the own new record of traffic of the goods enlivened in June being journeyed in the port of call than more 50,9 million tons than cargos, with an increase of +3.7% record of compared to the previous 49,0 million tons established in June of 2016.

The new peak of traffic in June 2017 is obtained graces to a new record of the volume of enlivened containerized trade that it has turned out pairs to 29,6 million tons, with an increase of +6.9% regarding june a 2016 and increment of +0.2% record compared to the previous marked in June 2014. If counted in number of container from 20 ' (teu) enlivened, the record of traffic is still that established in June 2014 with 2.837.500 teu, while hardly inferior it in June turns out total recorded 2016 of 2.822.400 teu (+8.6% on june 2016).

Moreover last month the Asian port has enlivened 17,8 million tons of oil bulk (- 0.6%), 1,7 million tons of other bulk (+21.1%) and 1,8 million conventional tons of goods (- 12.3%).

Also the volume total of the goods enlivened in the first six months of 2017, that it has been pairs to 310,2 million tons, turns out to be the new record of relative traffic to the first month of the year and records an increment of +5.1% record of compared to the previous 295,2 million tons totaled in the first semester of 2016.

In the first semester of this year the segment of the container has closed altogether with a handling of 171,2 million tons or, in terms of container from 20 ', of 16.149.800 teu, inferior figures regarding the records of 172,9 million tons and 16.506.000 teu established in the first half of 2014, but the advanced ones of +4.8% and +12.2% regarding the data of the first semester of 2016.

In the first six months of 2017 it is achieved instead the new record of oil bulk traffic enlivened from the port of Singapore in the first semester of the year being totaled 115,5 million tons, with a progression of +4.8% record of compared to the previous 110,2 million tons of the first semester last year.

In increase, even if they have not reached historical peaks, the traffics of conventional not oil bulk and goods that in the first half of the 2017 has been pairs to 9,3 million tons (+12.2%) and 14,1 million tons (+7.0%).