Cosco Shipping Ports Container Volumes Rise

Cosco Shipping Ports started the year on a good note with overall throughput rising 7% in January to 8.38m teu from 7.83m teu in the previous corresponding period.

News ID: 72403

Date: 17 February 2017 - 12:20

According to MANA, Throughput rose to 2.76m teu from 2.68m teu at the Bohai Rim region in January, while at the Yangtze River Delta, volumes rose to 1.62m teu from 1.58m teu in January 2016.

Even the Pearl River Delta region, which includes the group's Hong Kong terminals, which had been struggling all though last year managed to turn in positive growth in throughput, with volumes rising 3% to 2.16m teu from 2.10m teu. COSCO-HIT terminal in particular turned in a stellar 21% rise in throughput for January.