The Kwai Tsing container terminal, where the bulk of Hong Kong's shipping traffic is handled, recorded throughput of 1.56 million TEUs in the month, up 3.7 percent from a year earlier.
Operators at Kwai Tsing include Wharf (Holdings) Ltd's Modern Terminals and Hutchison Whampoa's Hongkong International Terminals.
Other cargo-handling areas recorded throughput of 440,000 TEUs in October, down 20.7 percent from a year ago.
In the first 10 months of the year, local ports handled a total of 20.58 million TEUs, up four percent year-on-year.
Of the total container throughput during the 10 months, 15.13 million TEUs were handled by the Kwai Tsing container terminal, up 5.2 percent year-on-year, while other cargo-handling areas handled 5.45 million TEUs, up 0.7 percent.