16.12.13Intra-Asia Box Traffic Slides 4th Straight Month

The combined volume of containerized shipments that major shipping lines moved in October among 13 countries and regions in Asia was 1.056 million TEUs, which decreased 9.8% from a year earlier and suffered a year-on-year for the fourth consecutive month. In breakdown, dry cargo accounted for 994,000 TEUs, which went down 10%, and reefer cargo, the balance of 62,000 TEUs, down 6.2%. Exports from Japan to the other economies plunged 18.1% to 106,000 TEUs, while imports to Japan from the 12 declined 8.4% to 168,000 TEUs.

In the first 10 months (January-October), total throughput on the intra-Asia trade was 11.228 million TEUs, which fell 2.1% from the corresponding months of 2015. Containers from Japan diminished 11.6% to 1.237 million TEUs, while those to Japan waned 2.7% to 1.852 million TEUs.