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Sixty-four international container ports in Japan handled 17,914,664 TEUs of export and import loaded and empty containers in total last year, up 3% from the previous year, the Harbor Modernization Promotion Committee announced last week. Exports of loaded containers accounted for 5,544,235 TEUs, up 6.5%, and imports, 8,527,952 TEUs, up 3.3%. They both came back to mark year-on-year improvements from decreases in 2020 due to the escalation of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Big Five (Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe) were responsible for 13,703,360 TEUs, up 4.8%, and the seven semi-major ports (Shimizu, Yokkaichi, Kitakyushu, Chiba, Kawasaki, Shimonoseki and Hakata), 2,091,834 TEUs, down 0.5% for a total of 15,795,200 TEUs, up 4.1%. Combined throughput at the remaining 52 (local ports) was 2,119,464 TEUs, down 4.6%. As these figures show, growth at the five major ports contributed to lifting the total.
