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Japan handled a total of 17.91 million tons of foreign-trade containers in November 2013, growing 34% from the corresponding month of 2008, according to a nationwide research on cargo throughput at domestic ports in Japan. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)’s Port and Harbor Bureau looks into the volume of containerized shipments imported to and exported from Japan every five years. The last research was conducted in November, and a report on the results was unveiled on June 30. The report indicated that shipments to and from other nations in East Asia held the largest share of the pie and were followed by those to and from other Asian nations and North America. They all increased quantitatively from five years earlier.
The MLIT report said that 6.9 million tons of containers were exported from Japanese ports in November in total, swelling 36.6% from when the previous research was done. Import containers grew nearly as much, going up 32.7% to 10.98 million tons. By region, Japan exported and imported 9.23 million tons to and from other East Asian economies, up 44%; 4.03 million tons to and from other Asian countries, up 43%; 2.06 million tons to and from North America, up 13%; and 1.67 million tons to and from Europe, up 19%.
