Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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the port of Busan has recorded a traffic container record in the first semester
+5.0% are enlivened 10,1 million teu ()
August 9, 2017
In the first six months of this year the port of Busan has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 10,1 million teu, total that an increment of +5.0% represents on the first half of 2016 and that the precedence constitutes the new record of enlivened containerized trade from the South Korean harbour port of call in the first semester of the year (record was established in the first semester of 2015 with almost 9,8 million teu).
Moreover the traffic enlivened in the first half of 2017 represents the second greater containerized volume never enlivened from the port being inferior is to the total almost 10,4 million teu enlivened in the second half of the year of 2016.
The total of the first semester of the 2017 confirmation also the position of Busan which sixth port world-wide container behind of the ports of Shanghai (than in the first semester of this year has enlivened 19,6 million teu), Singapore (16,1 million teu), Ningbo-Zhoushan (12,4 million teu), Shenzhen (11,9 million teuJ) and Hong Kong (10,2 million teu) and in front of the ports of Guangzhou (9,6 million teu) and Qingdao (9,1 million teu).
If in the solo first trimester of this year the traffic enlivened from the port of Busan had recorded an increase of +1.7% being piled to 4,9 million teu, in the quarter next the increment is gone up to enlivened +8,2% being 5,2 million teu regarding 4,8 million teu in the period April-june of 2016.
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In the first six months of this year the port of Busan has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 10,1 million teu, total that an increment of +5.0% represents on the first half of 2016 and that the precedence constitutes the new record of enlivened containerized trade from the South Korean harbour port of call in the first semester of the year (record was established in the first semester of 2015 with almost 9,8 million teu).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
