The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Nagoya in central Japan rose 1.5 percent in 2013 from a year earlier to 2.530 million TEUs, according to figures released by the Nagoya municipal government.
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s third-largest container port after the ports of Tokyo and Yokohama, but it is Japan’s largest port in terms of the value of foreign trade.
In 2013, the port exported 1.321 million TEUs of containers, rising 1.7 percent from 2012, and imported 1.209 million TEUs of containers, improving 1.3 percent from 2012. Including container trade within Japan, the Port of Nagoya handled a total of 2.709 million TEUs in 2013, up 2.0 percent year-over-year.
The Port of Nagoya handled 48.170 million tons of container cargo in foreign trade in 2013, increasing 3.1 percent from a year earlier. Containerized exports totaled 23.598 million tons, up 4.0 percent, while containerized imports amounted to 24.572 million tons, up 2.1 percent.
Of the total volume of container exports in 2013, 10.640 million tons or 45.1 percent were auto parts.
China and the U.S. are the Port of Nagoya’s largest and second-largest trading partners respectively in terms of container trade volume. The two countries are also the Top 2 export markets and import sources for the Japanese port in terms of container trade volume.
In 2013, the Port of Nagoya’s container exports to China rose 3.1 percent to 5.380 million tons, while imports from China edged up 0.7 percent to 10.936 million tons.
Nagoya’s imports from the U.S. declined 3.7 percent to 1.773 million tons in 2013, and the port’s exports to the U.S. slipped 0.1 percent to 3.583 million tons in 2013.
The Journal of Commerce
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