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Japan’s container exports to the U.S. amounted to 51,211 TEUs in August (based on volumes at ports of origin), which increased 5.6% year on year and have remained on an upward trend for five months in a row, Descartes Datamyne announced yesterday. Direct shipments amounted to 35,267 TEUs, up 8.9%, a year-on-year improvement for 13 months running, while the remaining 15,944 TEUs were transshipped on the way, down 1%. Transshipment (T/S) containers amounted to 31.1%, down by 2.1 percentage points, a year-on-year contraction for 13 consecutive months.
As for T/S containers, South Korea was responsible for 10,867 TEUs, up 6.3%, ending its consecutive declines since March 2023; China, 2,118 TEUs, up 54%; Taiwan, 1,653 TEUs, down 28.3%; and Singapore, 975 TEUs, down 21.8%.
Of the direct shipments from Japan to the U.S., 14,363 TEUs were from Tokyo, up 10.5%; 1,506 TEUs from Nagoya, up 19.9%; 6,426 TEUs from Kobe, down 9.8%; 2,985 TEUs from Yokohama, down 5.5%; and 356 TEUs from Shimizu, up 58.9%.
Meanwhile, Japan’s container imports from the U.S. jumped 36.2% from a year earlier to 63,892 TEUs in July (based on volumes at ports of destination), which were announced on the same day, which consisted of 61,810 TEUs of direct shipments, up 70.5%, and 2,082 TEUs of T/S containers, down 80.4%. In South Korea, 1,113 TEUs were transshipped, down 79.7%, and in China, 617 TEUs, up 168.3%.
Looking at direct shipments by destination, 29,925 TEUs were destined to Tokyo, up 123.6%; 20,417 TEUs to Yokohama, up 136.8%; and 5,714 TEUs to Kobe, down 11.9%.
