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A total of 1.224 million TEUs of containerized shipments were traded among 12 Asian economies in August 2013, surging 14% year on year from 1.078 million TEUs.
Exports from Japan accounted for 169,000 TEUs, growing 10% from 153,000 TEUs, while imports were also brisk, improving 7.8% to 200,000 TEUs.
Containers from Japan increased to nine destinations other than Thailand and Myanmar.
More specifically, those to China went up 5.5% to 67,000 TEUs; to Thailand, down 11.4% to 18,000 TEUs; to Taiwan, up 1.9% to 16,000 TEUs; to South Korea, up 41.8% to 15,000 TEUs; to Hong Kong, up 12% to 13,000 TEUs; to Vietnam, up 57% to 9,600 TEUs; to Indonesia, up 17% to 9,600 TEUs; to Malaysia, up 13.8% to 8,000 TEUs; to the Philippines, up 42% to 6,800 TEUs; to Singapore, up 1.9% to 4,000 TEUs; to Cambodia, up 85.2% to 800 TEUs and to Myanmar, down 17.6% to 400 TEUs.
In the first eight months from January to August, container throughput on the intra-Asia trade improved 5.6% to 9.387 million TEUs from a year earlier, when it was 8.893 million TEUs.
Exports from Japan rose 3.7% to 1.31 million TEUs, and imports climbed 2.4% to 1.555 million TEUs.
