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The Port of Yokohama processed 9.35 million tons of oceangoing container shipments in the first quarter of 2014, which decreased 3.5% year on year, according to preliminary statistics unveiled by the city of Yokohama. Exports accounted for 4.057 million tons, going down 5.3%, and imports, the balance of 5.293 million tons, down 2%. In terms of TEU, container throughput at the port remained nearly unchanged, declining a minute 0.1% to 626,000 TEUs. In breakdown, 338,000 TEUs were exported, improving 1.5%, and the remaining 288,000 TEUs were imported, falling 1.9%.
Looking at the total number of containers handled at the port during the three months from January to March by trade, the city’s Port and Harbor Bureau added that 108,000 TEUs were moved to and from the west coast of North America, which diminished 0.9% from a year earlier. As for other regions, 142,000 TEUs were carried to and from China, which went down 11.2%; 29,500 TEUs to and from South Korea, down 6%; 209,000 TEUs to and from other Asian economies, up 1%; 32,000 TEUs to and from the east coast of North America, down 1.4%; and 58,600 TEUs to and from Europe and the Mediterranean, up 21.6%.
