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FOREIGN trade container throughput at the Port of Tokyo increased 0.3 per cent in the first half of 2013 year on year to 2.09 million TEU, according to preliminary figures released by the Tokyo metropolitan government.
In the January-June period, the Port of Tokyo, Japan's largest container port, exported 951,000 TEU, down 0.7 per cent from the same six-month period last year, and imported 1.14 million TEU, up 1.2 per cent year on year.
In terms of volume, the Port of Tokyo handled 22.7 million tonnes of container cargo in foreign trade in the first half of this year, up 1.3 per cent from a year earlier. Container cargo exports totalled 6.3 million tonnes, up 0.6 per cent, and container cargo imports amounted to 16.4 million tonnes, up 1.5 per cent.
China and the US were Tokyo's first and second biggest container trading partners, also came in as first and second sources of containerised imports to Japan.
The Port of Tokyo's exports of both containerised and uncontainerised cargo to China, including Hong Kong, declined 4.7 per cent year on year to 2.1 million tonnes, while its imports of both containerised and uncontainerised cargo from China dropped 1.4 per cent year on year to 6.4 million tonnes.
In the January-June period, the Port of Tokyo's exports of both containerised and uncontainerised cargo to the US increased to 0.4 per cent from a year earlier to 1.3 million tonnes, while imports of both containerised and uncontainerised cargo from the US fell 2.9 per cent year on year to two million tonnes.
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