Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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To January 2018 the port of Singapore has established the own new historical record salary of traffic of the container
The new enlivened maximum peak is such in terms of teu, but not relatively to the all up weight of cargos
February 13, 2018
Last month the port of Singapore has established the own new historical record salary of traffic of the container having enlivened a traffic pairs to 2.992.900 teu, with an increment of enlivened +14.1% regarding 2.623.300 teu to January 2017 and with an increase of two thousand teu compared to the previous established absolute records to May 2017.
The new maximum peak however is such only if the containerized trade is counted in terms of containers from 20 feet (teu) enlivened and not in terms of weight: the tons of containerized cargos enlivened to January 2018 from the Asian harbour port of call, in fact, are piled to 30,2 million, total that an increase of +11.5% regarding 27,1 million tons enlivened to January 2017 represents but that he is inferior of the -3,8% regarding the absolute record of 31,4 million tons of goods in container recorded to May 2017.
Altogether last month the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port has been attested to beyond 52,6 million tons (+3.1% on January 2017). Besides containerized cargos conventional tons of goods (+8.6% are enlivened almost 1,9 million), 19,2 million tons of hydrocarbons (- 6.9%) and 1,3 million tons of other bulk (- 14.8%).
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