The total number of cargo containers shipped through the Port of Long Beach declined 13.8 percent in August, compared with the same month a year ago.

It was the smallest year-to-year decline for any month since November 2008.

Hong Kong also recorded growing throughput figures in August, with the fall in year-on-year volumes slowing to 10.7 percent, the narrowest in the past nine months.

Increasing box numbers at both sides of the Pacific corresponded with an increase in retail spending in the US in August that showed a 2.7 percent rise.

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• Singapore box numbers by 2.5% in August

     Container throughput continued to rise by 2.5 percent month-on-month to 2.28 million TEUs last month in Singapore, although the slower rate of increase from the 5.6 percent rise the preceding month seems to suggest that the sector’s recovery is reaching a plateau, the Shipping Times reported. And this was moreover still

• Steel exports grew in August

    Month-to-month gain encourages producers after long slump Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel. The month-to-month increase is encouraging news in an industry that has been in a deep and prolonged slump.

• Steel exports grew in August

    Month-to-month gain encourages producers after long slump Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel. The month-to-month increase is encouraging news in an industry that has been in a deep and prolonged slump.

• Steel exports grew in August

    Month-to-month gain encourages producers after long slump Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel. The month-to-month increase is encouraging news in an industry that has been in a deep and prolonged slump.

• Steel exports grew in August

    Month-to-month gain encourages producers after long slump Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel. The month-to-month increase is encouraging news in an industry that has been in a deep and prolonged slump.

• Steel exports grew in August

    Month-to-month gain encourages producers after long slump Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel. The month-to-month increase is encouraging news in an industry that has been in a deep and prolonged slump.

• Singapore August container traffic up 3 percent from July

    Singapore port terminals handled 3 percent more containers in August than in July, but traffic was 14 percent lower than a year earlier, data from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore showed. The numbers show trade at the world’s busiest container port is slowly improving as the global economy pulls

• Seaway tonnage dips

    Cargo tonnage sagged in September on the St. Lawrence Seaway, according to numbers released Thursday by the Seaway’s U.S. and Canadian administrations. From the season opening March 31 through Sept. 30, total tonnage is off 35 percent, sliding to 19.2 million metric tons from 29.7 million metric tons during the same

• LA reports increasing box volume

     The total number of containers shipped through the port of Los Angeles in August increased by six percent compared to July, the second consecutive month that volumes have risen at the port amid a slumping economy. The total number of TEUs imported and exported through the port in August was 612,581,

• U.S. retailers to increase imports Field

     Import cargo volume at major retail container ports in the US is expected to see three straight months of gains in early 2010 after more than two years of year-on-year declines, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and IHS Global Insight. “We’ve been seeing

• Box Volume Turnaround Starts, says study

    The National Retail Federation and IHS Global Insight said that major U.S. ports would soon see their first year-over-year growth in nearly three years

• LNG imports into Europe for July, August, for inclusion

     LNG shipments to Europe will increase by more than 40% in July and August, according to the latest edition of European LNG Report from market analysis firm Waterborne, Houston. This development, says Waterborne, will continue to depress natural gas prices on the continent. “We are adjusting our forecast numbers upward for

• September Hong Kong container traffic drops 20 percent, Q3 up 7.5 percent

    Container traffic through Hong Kong, the world’s third busiest port, fell more than 20 percent in September from a year earlier, despite optimism that global trade is recovering from its deepest slump since the 1930s. However, third quarter trade volumes rose 7.5 percent to 5.61 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU) from the

• Los Angeles, containers of up to 612,581 TEUs in August

    The total number of containers shipped through the port of Los Angeles in August increased by six percent compared to July, the second consecutive month that volumes have risen at the port amid a slumping economy. The total number of TEUs imported and exported through the port in August was 612,581,

• Melbourne Port throughput up 6.6% in December

    A positive rebound in trade volumes saw total trade through the Port of Melbourne in December 2009 increase 6.6 percent on the corresponding month the previous year.