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Container exports from Japan to the U.S. jumped 45.9% from a year earlier to 45,954 TEUs in June, American research company Descartes Datamyne has announced. From a month earlier, however, they plunged 16.9%. In the first half (January-June), a total of 296,254 TEUs were traded on the route, up 8.1%.
In June, 31,351 TEUs were moved directly from Japan to the U.S., up 35.9%. Meanwhile, containers from Japan that were transshipped in third economies surged 73.2% to 14,603 TEUs in total. South Korea was responsible for 8,384 TEUs, up 59.4%; China, 3,118 TEUs, up 157.9%; and Taiwan, 1,406 TEUs, up 174.6%.
