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Container trade from 10 Asian economies to the U.S. declined 4.4% year on year to 1,121,479 TEUs in May 2013, according to Zepol Corporation, a Minneapolis, MN-based trade intelligence service company.
Releasing a trade report on June 14, Zepol said that Asia-U.S. container movement was sluggish in the first five months as well, decreasing 1.5% to 5,215,594 TEUs.
The report, compiled from Automated Customs Environment (ACE) and bill of lading (B/L) data provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), added that containers from China, which accounted for more than 60 percent of the total, fell 1.4% to 688,578 TEUs last month.
However, in the five-months from January to May, they improved 1.3% to 3,094,255 TEUs—in contrast to shipments from other major countries exporting commodities to the U.S.
Containers from Southeast Asian nations were favorable in general in May, with those from Vietnam going up 15.2% to 94,637 TEUs; from Malaysia, up 33.4% to 86,503 TEUs and from Thailand, up 3.2% to 74,365 TEUs, said the Zepol report.
Shipments from Japan plunged 13.9% to 47,264 TEUs last month and 4.6% to 245,411 TEUs in the first five months.
