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… the Port of Hong Kong saw in 2016 its lowest TEU throughput for more than a decade. Not even a late surge in throughput in December could prevent the less-than-rosy results. By the numbers,

Hong Kong saw a monthly 1.8 million TEU, 14% increase from the same period just one year ago. But, 2016’s totals (19.6 million TEU) represented an annual drop of 2.5%. More worrying is that some of these individual terminals experienced as much as a 20 percent surge in December, but much if not all of that was a function of the Hanjin ‘hangover.’ www.maritimelogisticsprofessional.com 19

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