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Container traffic on the intra-Asia trade was steady in March 2013, improving 5.3% year on year to 1.303 million TEUs. In the first three months (January-March), throughput increased 4.8% to 3.483 million TEUs.
In March, exports from Japan to 11 other Asian economies remained nearly unchanged, falling a slight 0.43% to 178,000 TEUs; in contrast, imports rose 2.2% to 217,000 TEUs. In the first quarter, exports declined 0.08% to 467,000 TEUs, but imports hiked 2% to 575,000 TEUs.
Looking at containerized shipments exported from Japan in March by destination, growth was registered for those to Thailand, up 9.5% to 24,000 TEUs; to Taiwan, up 0.1% to 19,000 TEUs; to South Korea, up 0.3% to 16,000 TEUs; to Indonesia, up 0.9% to 13,000 TEUs; to Malaysia, up 1.9% to 9,100 TEUs; to the Philippines, up 2.9% to 5,800 TEUs and to Cambodia, up 43.3% to 700 TEUs.
On the other hand, containers destined to China went down 3.2% to 62,000 TEUs; to Hong Kong, down 2.5% to 15,000 TEUs; to Vietnam, down 5.6% to 7,700 TEUs; to Singapore, down 5.8% to 4,600 TEUs and to Myanmar, down 43.8% to 500 TEUs.
As for imports, containers from Thailand were up 20.7% to 23,000 TEUs; from Indonesia, up 0.9% to 15,000 TEUs; from Vietnam, up 26.3% to 13,000 TEUs; from the Philippines, up 42.4% to 9,700 TEUs; from Malaysia, up 3% to 8,300 TEUs; from Singapore, up 0.1% to 3,700 TEUs and from Myanmar, up 7.3% to 350 TEUs.
However, negative growth was posted for those from China, which went down 3.5% to 92,000 TEUs; from South Korea, down 2% to 20,000 TEUs; from Taiwan, down 1% to 19,000 TEUs and from Hong Kong, down 10% to 12,000 TEUs.
