Port of Singapore’s O1 cargo throughput up 1.5% to 126 m tons

Freight traffic passing through the port of Singapore in the first quarter of 2011 increased by 1.5% from the same period of 2010, to 126 million tons, the Singapore Port Authority press release said.
 

 

Three-month volume of crude oil transshipment was down by 4.2%, while container trade rose by 2% to 7,06 million TEUs.

 

 

Singapore is a city-state located on an island in Southeast Asia. In 2010, the Port of Singapore handled 502 million tons of cargo.