Container traffic through Port Klang, the country’s busiest container port, fell by 8.3 per cent last year, as the global economic downturn continues to hurt the country’s exports.

The port handled 7.3 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), the
standard measurement for shipping containers, compared with 7.9 million
TEUs in 2008.

In terms of tonnage handled, traffic through the port was 133.8 million tonnes, down 8.8 per cent over the previous year.

More
than half, or 61 per cent of the container volume, was from Westports,
which generated 4.451 million TEUs. Northport accounted for the
remaining 39 per cent or 2.858 million TEUs.

Transhipment cargo took
the largest share of Port Klang’s total throughput, contributing 58 per
cent, with local boxes constituting the remaining 42 per cent .

However, transhipment volume also saw a 9 per cent drop to 4.3 million TEUs for the 12 months.

Port
Klang Authority (PKA) general manager Kee Lian Yong said the decline in
container and cargo throughput is in line with the global trend.

“(Nevertheless,)
the port’s container volume was better than our earlier forecast of a
10 per cent drop. Overall Port Klang also fared better than other major
ports in the world, which saw a 10-15 per cent drop in traffic,” he
told Business Times.

Kee said Port Klang is expected to post throughput growth in 2010, returning to 2008 volume of 8 million TEUs.

“We remain cautiously optimistic as the shipping community is predicting that 2010 will still be a tough year,” he added.

According
to Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd’s most recent projections, the
market will have to wait until 2012 before global container port volume
exceeds 2008 levels again. It expects Far East and Southeast Asian
container traffic to recover faster than that in other regions.

“In
2010, the market should brace for another tough year,” Shipping
Association of Malaysia chairman Ooi Lean Hin had said in an earlier
interview.

Source: Business Times Malaysia

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