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Sixty-four container ports in Japan handled a total of 8.653 million TEUs of containerized export and import shipments (loaded and empty) in the first six months of 2012, increasing 1% year on year, according to a report compiled by the Harbor Modernization Promotion Committee.
The Big Five ports (Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe) were responsible for 6.716 million TEUs, rising a minute 0.6%.
Focusing on loaded containers processed at the 64 ports, exports totaled 2.812 million TEUs, going down 0.5%, while imports amounted to 4.037 million TEUs, growing 1.2%.
By ports, throughput at major ports were as follows: 1.59 million TEUs at Tokyo, 1.151 million TEUs at Yokohama, 1.042 million TEUs at Nagoya, 884,000 TEUs at Kobe, 734,000 TEUs at Osaka, 300,000 TEUs at Hakata and 180,000 TEUs at Shimizu.
On a tonnage basis, shipments weighed in at 23.06 million tons at Nagoya, 22.35 million tons at Tokyo, 21.15 million tons at Yokohama, 17.516 million tons at Kobe and 15.716 million tons at Osaka.
