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Overall container volumes -- export and import, transshipment (T/S) and domestic cargoes -- handled at the South Korean port of Busan in the first four months of 2013 were 5,794,875 TEUs, increasing 3.6% from a year earlier, according to the Busan Port Authority (BPA).
Imports went up 1.9% to 1,465,000 TEUs, and exports, up 2.7% to 1,493,400 TEUs for a total of 2,958,700 TEUs, which improved 2.3%. T/S containers grew 6.5% to 2,830,000 TEUs, while domestic cargoes amounted to 4,097 TEUs.
Between Busan and ports in Japan, the BPA said that a total of 893,000 TEUs of containers were traded, rising 7% year on year -- with exports and imports accounting for 454,000 TEUs, up 4.3% and T/S containers, the balance of 439,000 TEUs, up 9.9%.
In breakdown, 82,500 TEUs were carried to and from Tokyo, up 3.9%; 81,550 TEUs to and from Osaka, down 1.6%; 74,000 TEUs to and from Hakata, down 5.4% and 64,400 TEUs to and from Yokohama, up 11.8%.
