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The combined volume of containerized shipments that major shipping companies handled in September between and among 13 countries and regions in Asia was 1.255 million TEUs, growing 7.4% from the 1.169 million TEUs moved in the corresponding month of 2014. Exports from Japan rose 3% to 144,000 TEUs, while imports to the nation were also greater than a year earlier, improving 2.4% to 186,000 TEUs.
In the first nine months (January-September), total container throughput on the intra-Asia trade amounted to 11.019 million TEUs, increasing 3.4% year on year. Japan exported 1.324 million TEUs, falling 0.4%, and imported 1.668 million TEUs, hiking a minute 0.1%.
Looking at containers shipped from Japan in September by destination, those to China surged 11.4% to 59,000 TEUs. On the other hand, those to Taiwan and Hong Kong were both weak, going down 5.5% to 15,000 TEUs and down 12.9% to 12,000 TEUs, respectively. As for exports to Southeast Asia, those to Vietnam soared 16.4% to 8,000 TEUs, while those to Malaysia were massive, too, climbing 8.7% to 7,000 TEUs. In contrast, shipments to Thailand, a major destination of Japanese commodities, sank 21.4% to 14,000 TEUs. Containers to other important partners were also sluggish, with those to Indonesia declining 8% to 8,000 TEUs; to the Philippines, 2.3% to 4,000 TEUs and to Singapore, 11.8% to 3,000 TEUs.
As it concerns imports to Japan, those from China were performed favorably, swelling 8.5% to 95,000 TEUs, but those to Taiwan and Hong Kong were not, which diminished 11.5% to 14,000 TEUs and 20.3% to 9,000 TEUs, respectively. Regarding cargo from ASEAN members, Japan imported 16,000 TEUs from Thailand, which went down 15.1%, and 3,000 TEUs from Singapore, down 2.8%. Contrastingly, containers from Indonesia headed north a slight 0.4% to 12,000 TEUs. Those from Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia all improved much more notably, going up 10.6% to 10,000 TEUs, 73.2% to 9,000 TEUs and 18.6% to 8,000 TEUs, respectively.
