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In September 2010, container traffic from 10 Asian economies to the U.S. leaped 20.9% year on year to 1,281,812 TEUs.
From August 2010, however, it became weaker slightly, going down 4.4%, according to Zepol Corporation, which compiled a monthly report from Automated Manifest System (AMS) data provided by the U.S. Customs.
The Minneapolis-based information service provider estimated that due to the shortage of slots for transporting containers, exporters in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam moved up to summer shipments for pre-Christmas sales that they had originally planned to make in autumn.
By origin, exports from eight of the 10 countries/regions decreased from the previous month in September although those from Thailand and Vietnam improved 1.2% to 15,709 TEUs and 8.1% to 11,108 TEUs, respectively.
Containers from China, which managed to hold the largest share of the pie, fell 2.5% to 771,460 TEUs.
As a consequence, those from South Korea and Hong Kong, many of which are transshipment cargoes from China, declined as well, going down 5.1% to 122,427 TEUS and 12% to 117,936 TEUs, respectively.
Shipments from Taiwan and Singapore, both of which transship many cargoes from other Asian economies, also waned, but those from Japan, which handles a small volume of transshipment containers, decreased a milder 1.8% to 39,888 TEUs.
As for those from others, India exported 11,108 TEUs, down 18.4%, and Malaysia, 16,962 TEUs, down 8.7%.
