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Combined volume of containerized shipments transported in May 2011 by leading shipping companies on the intra-Asia trade （among 12 economies in the region） amounted to 1.085 million TEUs.
The total went down 0.5% from May 2010, when 1.09 million TEUs were handled, suffering the first year-on-year decline in seven months.
Exports from Japan to the 11 others plunged 19.3% to 145,000 TEUs, incurring a greater decrease than a year earlier, while imports, which had been on an upward trend, began to fall, going down 2.3% to 193,000 TEUs.
During the first five months of 2011, 5.41 million TEUs were moved in total, improving 4.2% year on year to 5.191 million TEUs.
From January to May, Japan exported a total of 835,000 TEUs, down 9.8%, and imported 995,000 TEUs, up 4.4%.
