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A Tokyo-based think tank projects that a total of 12.723 million TEUs of international containerized shipments will be imported to and exported from nine major ports in Japan in fiscal 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), increasing 2.9% year on year.
Unveiling a revision of its business and cargo transport forecasts for the current fiscal year on June 13, 2013, Nittsu Research Institute and Consulting, Inc. (NRIC) indicated that 2.0456 million tons of airfreight will be transported to and from Japan.
NRIC said that container imports to Tokyo, Yokohama, Shimizu, Nagoya, Yokkaichi, Osaka, Kobe, Kitakyushu and Hakata will go up 2.7% to 7.506 million TEUs in total this fiscal year.
Dry cargoes will go steady as demand is favorable, and it is even growing because an increase in the consumption tax rate is scheduled in 2014.
Machinery and equipment will begin swelling in the second half of this fiscal year.
Container exports will rise a slight 3.3% to 5.217 million TEUs as the global economy is only recovering slowly.
Airfreight exports, which are far from improving rapidly now, will only achieve positive growth in the second half, according to NRIC.
They will decrease 1.5% year on year to 888,700 tons on a yearly scale due to, among other reasons, an increase in the number of production facilities relocated to other nations and a decrease in the global competitiveness of export items.
As for imports of air cargoes, machinery and equipment will recover, but owing to the depreciation of the Japanese yen, consumer goods will not.
They will grow a minute 0.9% to 1.157 million tons.
