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The Port of Kawasaki in Japan handled 7,358 TEUs of foreign-trade containers in July, up 20.9% year on year, according to the Kawasaki City Government’s Port and Harbor Bureau. Total container throughput, including domestic containers, amounted to 9,171 TEUs, up 23.3%.
Exports accounted for 3,744 TEUs, up 37.6%, which consisted of 798 TEUs of loaded containers, up 7.4%, and 2,946 TEUs of empty containers, up 48.9%. The remaining 3,614 TEUs were imported, up 7.4%, which comprised 3,599 TEUs of loaded containers, up 7.2%, and 9 TEUs of empty containers. Meanwhile, domestic containers totaled 1,813 TEUs, up 34%.
In the first seven months, Kawasaki processed 50,188 TEUs of foreign-trade containers, up 1.8%. Including domestic containers, 65,102 TEUs were to and from the port, up 6.7%.
Kawasaki exported 24,103 TEUs, up 4.8%, which were made up of 4,544 TEUs of loaded containers, down 9.3%, and 19,559 TEUs of empty containers, up 8.7%. Imports added up to 26,085 TEUs, down 0.9%, of which 25,631 TEUs were loaded, down 1.4%, and 454 TEUs were empty, up 38%. Domestic containers came to 14,914 TEUs in total, up 27.7%.
