In the period July-September of this year, the port of Singapore set its new all-time quarterly traffic record of containers having been equal to almost 10.5 million TEUs, with an increase of +5.1% over the third quarter of 2023. The new maximum peak of containerized traffic is not a peak if it is taken into account the weight of the loads in containers handled which in the third quarter of 2024 amounted to over 94.7 million tons, a volume that represents an increase of +5.3% on the same period last year and is only lower than the An all-time record of 95.5 million tons set in the second quarter of 2024.

In addition, in the period July-September of this year the airport Asian port handled 7.2 million tons of cargo conventional (+13.2%), 43.9 million tonnes of bulk cargo (-8.6%) and 8.1 million tons of bulk of other type (+59.7%), the latter volume representing a new record for this time of year.

In the first nine months of 2024, the Port of Singapore handled a total of 468.9 million tons of goods, with an increase of +6.5% on the same period of last year year. Containerized goods stood at 279.6 million tons (+6.9%) and were made with a handling of containers equal to 30.7 million TEUs (+6.0%). The traffic of the was 19.6 million tons (-0.3%), that of oil bulk of 147.1 million tons (+2.8%) and other bulk traffic of 22.6 million of tons (+39.9%).

In the first nine months of this year, fuel sales in the Asian port, which is one of the main ports of call in bunkering worldwide, amounted to 40.8 million tonnes of fuel (+7.1%). including mainly 22.2 million tonnes of low-sulphur LSFO fuel (-3.3%), 14.9 million tons of marine fuel oil (+24.9%) and over 2.7 million tons of LSMGO low-sulfur marine diesel (+4,0%).