Guangzhou Port Q1 box throughput surpasses Kaohsiung, Rotterdam

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17 May 2008

Guangzhou Port's first quarter container throughput surpasses Port of Kaohsiung, which is likely to fall out of the world's top 10 box port rank this year, and the world's seventh largest port of Rotterdam, Logistics Week reported. Guangzhou port, China's fifth and world's twelfth largest box port in 2007, handled 2.79 million TEU during the first quarter of this year, surpassing Rotterdam's 2.68 million TEU, up 35.4 per cent year on year, making it the third largest domestic port after Shanghai and Shenzhen. The growth of its box volume was the fastest among the top five ports in China.
The port lifted 974,000 TEU in March. Its annual container throughput is estimated to reach 10 million TEU by the end of this year.
Mainland China port's aggregate throughput increased 18.4 per cent to 29 million TEU in the first quarter. In March, these ports handled 10.26 million TEU.

Source: Schednet