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Container volume transported westbound from Asia to Europe in September 2011 was 1,120,500 TEUs, increasing a minute 0.2% year on year, according to Container Trades Statistics Ltd. （CTS） of the U.K.
The throughput, which amounted to 1,118,000 TEUs in September 2010, plunged 12.6% from August 2011, when it totaled 1,282,000 TEUs.
After reaching an all-time high of 1,301,500 TEUs in July 2011, it went down from a month earlier for two months in a row.
Meanwhile, eastbound container movement from Europe to Asia was more robust in September 2011.
It soared 10.97% year on year from 455,000 TEUs to 504,900 TEUs, enjoying a double-digit increase for the second consecutive month.
The freight rate index for westbound services （the average rate in 2008: 100 points） was 76 points in September 2011, remaining unchanged from the previous month.
The downward trend on which it had been since it rose to 117 points in July 2010 subsided.
Container traffic on the Asia/Europe trade was brisk in both directions in the third quarter and the first three quarters of 2011.
From July to September, containers from Asia to Europe improved 4.07% from a year earlier to 3,704,000 TEUs, and those from Europe to Asia, 9.82% to 1,520,900 TEUs.
From January to September, westbound shipments picked up 4.8% to 10,581,800 TEUs, and eastbound shipments, 6.9% to 4,490,100 TEUs.
Looking at shipping lanes to, from and within Europe, outbound containers?or those from ports in Europe to other regions and other countries in the region?registered a double-digit increase of 10.2% year on year to 1,427,300 TEUs.
Inbound containers went up a much milder 1.17% to 1,779,400 TEUs.
