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, a six percent rise compared to 576,203 TEUs in July. In June, total container volume at the port was 551,679 TEUs.

August container volumes, which reflect a muted peak shipping season, are the port’s highest this calendar year. By comparison, August 2008 container volume was 19 percent higher, mostly due to a 2008 peak shipping season that came prior to the economic meltdown that hit in September 2008.

Year to date in 2009, total TEU volume is at 4,374,818 boxes, 18.3 percent lower compared to the same eight-month period in 2008.

A long-term forecast prepared by the Tioga Group for the Port of Los Angeles earlier this year indicates that the recession and its effect on international container trade are expected to level out in late 2009, with modest growth returning in 2010.

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• 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,

• Marseille-Fos increased volumes Box This Year

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• Container handling ports of the Caspian Russia down 29.4% January-Aug 09

    In January-August, 2009, total container throughput of Russia’s Caspian ports fell by 29.4%, year-on-year, RZD-Partner reports. The port of Makhachkala increased the throughput by 35.1%, year-on-year though container flow via Makhachkaa port is not comparable to that of other ports. Without taking empty containers into consideration, export flow fell by 48.9%,

• Chinese Box volume signal recovery

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• Box numbers are rising on both sides of the Pacific

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• Bohai Rim help compensate for volume losses COSCO Ports

    Hong Kong-based terminal operator COSCO Pacific saw volume at 20 global ports in which it has stakes fall 4.8 percent in August, to 3.9 million TEUs. For the year, the company’s volume has fallen 7.7 percent, to 27.9 million TEUs. COSCO’s terminals in Qingdao and Dalian in northeastern China continued to

• Port Klang container volume down

     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, Business Times reported. The port handled 7.3 million TEUs, compared with 7.9 million TEUs in 2008. In terms of tonnage handled, traffic through

• 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

• Malaysian ports increased container throughput of 10% in 2nd Quarter

     Malaysian ports handled 10 percent more containers in the second quarter of the year compared to the first, reflecting a recovery in both domestic and transhipment cargo, the Business Times reported. Container traffic at the 10 major ports rose to 3.79 million TEUs from 3.44 million in the periods reviewed. Transhipment traffic,

• Singapore box numbers by 2.5% in August

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• Jurong Port is September Throughput

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• Prince Rupert volume grew by 15 percent

    Cargo volume at the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, increased 15 percent in 2009 over 2008, including a 45.9 percent increase in container traffic. The port’s primary liner company, China Ocean Shipping Container and its alliance partners, added a second trans-Pacific service, boosting Prince Rupert’s container volume despite the

• Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo outperform Ports

     Business at mainland ports continued to improve last month with the Yangtze River Delta, especially Shanghaiy and Ningboy, faring better than Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta, the South China Morning Post reported. For the first time this year, cargo throughput at Shanghai, the world’s busiest container terminal, increased 5.8

• Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo outperform Ports

     Business at mainland ports continued to improve last month with the Yangtze River Delta, especially Shanghaiy and Ningboy, faring better than Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta, the South China Morning Post reported. For the first time this year, cargo throughput at Shanghai, the world’s busiest container terminal, increased 5.8

• Nehru Port boxes by 7 percent

    Container throughput at India’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru, fell 7 percent in the April-July period compared with a year ago, amid the continuing slump in the country’s foreign trade. Box traffic during the first four months of fiscal 2009-10 declined to 1.13 million 20-foot equivalent units from 1.4 million TEUs,