Singapore box traffic down sharply

5/16/2009 10:00:58 AM

Singapore's April container throughput fell by 17.7 percent as dismal global trade continued to trouble the Southeast Asian transshipment hub.   The world's busiest container port handled 2.085 million TEUs in the month, compared to 2.5 million the previous year. Singapore has handled 8.1 million boxes this year.   Hong Kong throughput for April improved slightly but was still 16 percent lower than in the same month last year.   The port handled 1.76 million TEUs against 2.09 million the previous April. Cumulative container throughput for this year is 10.83 million TEUs.   Contributing to Singapore's poor April figures was Jurong Port, which reported a 32.53 percent year-on-year drop in throughput in April.   The port handled 56,000 TEUs in the month against 83,000 boxes that came across its wharves in April last year.   Last year Jurong recorded a 16.9 percent increase in container throughput, handling 832,000 TEUs.   Cargo News Asia

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