10.07.05Intra-Asia Box Traffic Continues Strong Growth in May

Container volumes between ten Asian countries and territories (Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia) totaled 1.125 million TEUs in May, representing a 15.2% increase over the same month in 2009.

Exports from Japan to the Asian nations and territories swelled 8.9% from a year earlier to 188,000 TEUs while Japan's containerized imports marked a double-digit increase of 13.5 % to 207,000 TEUs.

For the first five months of the year, intra-Asia box traffic achieved a strong 17.8% increase from the same period last year to 5.264 million TEUs compared with 4.470 million TEUs in 2009. Japan's exports for the period surged 18.4% year on year to 979,000 TEUs and its imports increased 11.1% on year to 1.18 million TEUs.