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New records of quarterly and semiannual traffic for the port of Busan
The South Korean port of call is gone up to the fifth place in the top ten of the world-wide ports container
July 30, 2018
In the first semester of this year the South Korean port of Busan has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 10.607.983 teu, with a progression of enlivened +4.0% regarding 10.196.241 teu in the first half of 2017. The total enlivened from the port of call in the first six months of 2018 at the end places the port of Buan to the fifth place in the world-wide ranking of the ports container regarding the sixth occupied place of 2017. Busan in fact has climbed over the port of Hong Kong, than in the first six months it has enlivened 9.885.000 teu and that at the end of the first half of the 2018 seventh in the ranking of the first ports container of the exceeded world has been classified being also from the port of Guangzhou that has enlivened 10.464.100 teu.
The containerized trade enlivened in the first six months of 2018 from the port of Busan represents the new absolute semiannual record of the port of call being advanced to the precedence semiannual peak of 10.297.242 teu of according to trimester of 2017. Moreover on 30 June the port has established also the own new absolute quarterly record of traffic of the container having enlivened in the slid period April-june 5.487.623 teu, with an increase of +3.5% regarding the same period of 2017 when the precedence was recorded record with 5.300.984 teu.
The ministry of the marine Activities and the peach of Seul has announced that in the first semester of this year the South Korean ports have enlivened altogether 787,9 million tons of goods, with a decrease of the -1,0% on the first half of 2017, of which 696,3 million tons of import and exports and 111,7 million tons of national traffic. The traffic of the container has been pairs to totally 14,1 million teu (+3.9%) and in terms of weight the containerized trade is piled to 519,3 million tons (- 6.1%).
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In the first semester of this year the South Korean port of Busan has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 10.607.983 teu, with a progression of enlivened +4.0% regarding 10.196.241 teu in the first half of 2017. The total enlivened from the port of call in the first six months of 2018 at the end places the port of Buan to the fifth place in the world-wide ranking of the ports container regarding the sixth occupied place of 2017. Busan in fact has climbed over the port of Hong Kong, than in the first six months it has enlivened 9.885.000 teu and that at the end of the first half of the 2018 seventh in the ranking of the first ports container of the exceeded world has been classified being also from the port of Guangzhou that has enlivened 10.464.100 teu.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
