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Japan’s 64 oceangoing container trade ports handled a total of 8,860,891 TEUs of loaded and unloaded containers in the first half (January-June) of 2021, rising 2.4% from the same six months of last year, according to the Harbor Modernization Promotion Committee. There was a slight increase from the January-June of 2020, when combined throughput at the 64 ports decreased from a year earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating that container trade to and from Japan were on a recovery track.
Exports of loaded containers from the 64 ports totaled 2,794,213 TEUs, up 11.2%. Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe were responsible for 2,163,178 TEUs, up 12.6%, which accounted for 77.4% of the total.
The 64 ports imported 4,213,241 TEUs of full containers, up 2.5%, including 3,244,243 TEUs to the Big Five, up 3.5%, which held a share of 77% of the pie.
