Singapore posts a 15% gain in containers, 6.92m TEUs, Q1,10

Containers throughput of the Port of Singapore in the 1st quarter of 2010 increased by 15% as compared with the same period of 2009, to 6.925 million TEUs, the Port Authority’s provisional data said. In March, the volume of containers handled at the port rose by 5.5% to 2.4 million TEUs.

Singapore, a city-state is located on an island in the South-East Asia. Trade flows via the Port of Singapore reached in 2009 472 million tons.