Cargo volumes on Taicang-Taiwan container route surges

1/9/2007 10:04:34 AM

THE volume of cargo carried on the Taicang-Taiwan container shipping route has surged ahead 22 per cent between January and November 2006 to 269,000 tons, Xinhua reports. It said the value of this trade rose by a tremendous 280 per cent during the reporting period to US$420 million. Within this total, Taicang imported 185,000 tons of cargo worth $290 million and exported 84,000 tons of cargo valued at $130 million. The report added that the container shipping route from Taicang port to Kaohsiung and Keelung is the first of its kind win approval from China's Ministry of Communications to operate between ports on the Yangtze River and Taiwan. Asian Shipper News

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