POA posts 8 percent container increase, Feb year

By NZPA

Tuesday 18th March 2003

Ports of Auckland, the country's biggest port operator, clocked up an 8 percent gain in container volumes in the year to February 2003.

Vessels carrying 635,338 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) docked at the port during the 12-month period, compared with 587,481 TEUs a year earlier.

Full import container volumes rose 18 percent for the month compared with February 2002 and 10 percent for the full year.

Full export TEU volumes were unchanged for the 12 months to February 2003 and fell 1 percent for the February month.

Transhipments grew by 11 percent for the year and 2 percent for the month.

Containers account for about 70 percent of Ports of Auckland's throughput and about 90 percent of business activity.

Breakbulk (non-containerised) volumes totalled 4.4 million tonnes for the 12 months, a rise of 12 percent on 2002.

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