Singapore stays on top of Shanghai, Hong Kong in TEU volume

Singapore remained the world's biggest container port according to monthly October statistics with a year-on-ear throughput rising 10.4 per cent, while Shanghai gained 7.8 per cent and Hong Kong was 0.4 per cent.
In the first 10 months of the year, the volume in the Lion City rose 12.8 per cent over the same period in 2006 to 23.1 million TEU, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
Shanghai handled 21.6 million TEU from January to October, a rise of 21 per cent over the same period last year, reported Logistics Weekly.
Statistics from the Hong Kong Port Development Council show that the SAR handled a 19.7 million TEU from January to October, a rise of 1.7 per cent with 2.03 million TEU in October a rise of 0.4 per cent compared to the same month last year.
Container terminals outside Kwai Tsing handled 530,000 TEU in September, nearly 1.4 per cent more than in the same month in 2006. Since the beginning of the year, Hong Kong terminals handled a total of 17.7 million TEU, a rise of two per cent over the same period in 2006 and slightly more than three million TEU behind Singapore's nine-month total.