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The combined volume of containerized shipments that major shipping companies moved in 2015 among 13 countries and regions in Asia was 14.795 million TEUs, which increased 2.5% year on year from 14.428 million TEUs. Exports from Japan declined 2.8% to 1.732 million TEUs, while imports to Japan rose a very minute 0.7% to 2.243 million TEUs.
Looking at containers from Japan by destination, those to China went down 8.3% from a year earlier to 610,000 TEUs; to Taiwan, down 5.1% to 223,000 TEUs and to Hong Kong, down 5.8% to 150,000 TEUs. As for exports to Southeast Asia, those to Thailand were down 1.7% to 189,000 TEUs; to Vietnam, up 20.2% to 104,000 TEUs; to Indonesia, down 0.9% to 99,000 TEUs; to Malaysia, up 5.5% to 94,000 TEUs; to the Philippines, down 2.9% to 49,000 TEUs and to Singapore, down 3.9% to 45,000 TEUs.
As for incoming shipments, meanwhile, those from China went up 0.6% from the previous year to 1.064 million TEUs; from Taiwan, down 5.1% to 188,000 TEUs and from Hong Kong, down 13.2% to 102,000 TEUs. From Southeast Asia, Japan imported 205,000 TEUs from Thailand, down 6.9%; 136,000 TEUs from Indonesia, up 6.5%; 127,000 TEUs from Vietnam, up 3.8%; 84,000 TEUs from the Philippines, up 22.7% and 38,000 TEUs from Singapore, down 0.7%.
