Container ports post strong growth

Container throughput of major Chinese ports reached 108 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the first three quarters of 2010, according to the China Container Port Industry Report, 2010.

The forecast is that container throughput of Chinese ports will reach 134 million TEUs in 2010, up 9.8% year-on-year.

Coastal ports achieved container throughput of 96.89 million TEUs in the first three quarters of this year, with Shanghai Port ranking first with throughput of 21.6 million TEUs, followed by Shenzhen Port and Qingdao Port.

Shanghai Port now handles more container traffic than Singapore and is poised to become the biggest container port in the world this year.

PR-USA.net reports that inland ports achieved container throughput of 10.63 million TEUs in the first three quarters of 2010.