THE Port of Hong Kong saw container throughput edge up 0.2 per cent in November to 1.532 million TEU compared to the same month last year when the port handled a total of 1.529 million TEU.
Kwai Tsing terminals handled a total of 1.257 million TEU in November, an increase of 2.1 per cent from the corresponding month in 2020 when box throughput totalled 1.231 million TEU.
Container throughput at non-Kwai Tsing terminals totalled 275,000 TEU last month, 7.7 per cent down from 298,000 TEU in November 2020.
In the first eleven months of the year, the port handled a total of 16.279 million TEU, 0.3 per cent down from the corresponding period last year.