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Total volumes of containerized shipments that major shipping lines moved in December 2016 among 13 countries and regions in Asia amounted to 1.213 million TEUs, which increased 5.1% from a year earlier and registered the first year-on-year growth in six months. In breakdown, dry cargo swelled 5.5% to 1.146 million TEUs, but reefer cargo fell 1.7% to 68,000 TEUs. Exports from Japan declined 6.7% to 125,000 TEUs, but its imports rose 1.1% to 185,046 TEUs.
On an annual scale, a total of 13.533 million TEUs were carried on the intra-Asia trade last year, which shrank 1.9% from the previous year. In detail, dry cargo diminished 2.3% to 12.75 million TEUs, but reefer cargo hiked 4.6% to 783,100 TEUs. Japan exported 1.476 million TEUs to the remaining 12 economies, which plunged 11.1%, and imported 2.212 million TEUs, which inflated 1.5%. Focusing on dry cargo, 1.41 million TEUs were shipped from Japan, which went down 10.8%, and 2.07 million TEUs to Japan, up 0.5%. As for reefer cargo, Japan exported 142,726 TEUs, up 18.3%, and imported 65,600 TEUs, down 18.5%.
