Ripe time for Shanghai Port
By Shangguan Zhoudong (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-10-12 09:09
The container throughput of the Shanghai Port reached 13.9574 million
twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the first eight months of this year, of
which, 1.950 million TEUs were handled in August, according to statistics from
the Ministry of Communications.
The container throughput of Yangshan Port, a part of Shanghai Port, realized
280,000 TEUs in July this year, the highest monthly record since the deep-water
port opened in December last year.
According to statistics, in the first half of this year, Shanghai
Port's international container transshipment reached 279,000 TEUs, of which, 50
percent were from Yangshan Port.
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