Port of Singapore throughput up 4.8% to 359.9 mln t in 7M’17

Cargo volumes handled at the Port of Singapore in January-July  2017 rose 4.8%, year-on-year, to 359.9 million tonnes, the Port Authority statistics showed.

The volume of oil cargo increased by 2.98% to 132.03 million tonnes, while non-oil bulk cargo – by 12.63% to 10.78 million tonnes. 

The port’s container throughput was up 7.17% to 19.03 million TEUs.

Singapore is the city-state located on an island in Southeast Asia. In 2016, container traffic at Port of Singapore reached 30.9 TEUs, total cargo throughput was 593.3 million tonnes.