HK port June throughput falls 5% to 1.7m teu

Container throughput at the Port of Hong Kong continued to slide in June, falling 4.5% overall to 1.67m teu, although this was the slowest pace of decline so far this year.

News ID: 80126

Date: 17 July 2018 - 13:00

In fact, volumes at the main Kwai Tsing terminals actually rose slightly for the first time since January, rising 0.7% to 1.33m teu from 1.32m teu in June 2017.
The non-Kwai Tsing terminals however saw throughput plunge 20.5% to 340,000 teu from 428,000 teu previously.
With the high season coming over the next few months and an imminent US-China trade war, future container flows remain somewhat tenuous.