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Container movement on the intra-Asia trade was brisk in January 2014, increasing 9.6% to 1.19 million TEUs and making a year-on-year improvement for the ninth consecutive month, or since May 2013. Exports from Japan to 11 other countries and regions grew 8.9% to 132,000 TEUs, while imports to Japan were as robust, hiking 8.2% to 200,000 TEUs.
Looking at containers from Japan by destination, those to Thailand and Singapore both fell from a year earlier, decreasing 12.9% to 14,000 TEUs and 3.2% to 2,900 TEUs, respectively. In contrast, shipments to the nine remaining trade partners were favorable. Those to China went up 10.2% to 52,000 TEUs; to Taiwan, up 9.7% to 16,000 TEUs; to South Korea, up 30.5% to 13,000 TEUs; to Hong Kong, up 0.7% to 10,000 TEUs; to Indonesia, up 7.7% to 7,000 TEUs; to Malaysia, up 16.6% to 6,500 TEUs; to Vietnam, up 20.9% to 5,000 TEUs; to the Philippines, up 29.6% to 4,300 TEUs; to Cambodia, up 30.7% to 500 TEUs and to Myanmar, up 49.7% to 300 TEUs.
As for imports to Japan, meanwhile, those from South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore were sluggish, declining 10.4% to 15,000 TEUs, 11.4% to 9,000 TEUs and 3.1% to 3,000 TEUs, respectively. On the other hand, containers from China were not. They went up 9.1% to 101,000 TEUs; from Taiwan, up 25.1% to 20,000 TEUs; from Thailand, up 7.6% to 15,000 TEUs; from Hong Kong, up 27.9% to 12,000 TEUs; from Vietnam, up 14% to 10,000 TEUs; from Malaysia, up 3.6% to 7,000 TEUs; from the Philippines, up 7.1% to 6,000 TEUs; from Myanmar, up 30.4% to 300 TEUs and from Cambodia, up 45.7% to 200 TEUs.
