Hong Kong port container throughput hits 28-year low
Hong Kong Maritime Port Authority announced that, according to the information provided by the major operators estimated that the Hong Kong port container throughput in December last year fell 4.2% year-on-year to 1.191 million standard containers (TEU); annual decline of 4.9% to 13.69 million TEU, for the first time since 1996, a new low of 28 years.
Divided by terminal, Kwai Tsing Container Terminal in December container throughput decreased by 2.5% year-on-year to 871,000 TEU, the annual decline of 6.2% to 10.352 million TEU; Kwai Tsing Container Terminal outside the same period of container throughput fell by 8.5% year-on-year to 320,000 TEU, the annual decline of 0.9% to 3.338 million TEU. rise and fall, according to the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of transportation data, last year the Shenzhen port container throughput reached 33.38 million TEU, up 11.7% year-on-year.
In addition, Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng mentioned in his government work report yesterday that the container throughput of Shanghai port reached 51.506 million TEUs last year, ranking first in the world for 15 consecutive years, and becoming the world's first world port with an annual throughput of more than 50 million TEUs.
The Hong Kong Transportation and Logistics Bureau said in a social media posting that Secretary Mabel Chan visited Kwai Tsing Container Terminals early this week and met with a number of terminal operators to talk about the government's policy direction and expectations, and to listen to the business plans and concerns of the operators. She pointed out that the government is actively promoting the development of a green port and smart port, such as promoting Hong Kong as a green bunker fuel refueling center; completing the construction of a port community system by the end of this year; and studying the extension of the air transshipment cargo license exemption arrangement to other intermodal transport modes.