Busan Port on the up and up

Busan Port handled the largest volumes in its history and remains the world's 5th largest container port. In the first half year the port handled 7,871,000 TEU, 13% up on a year ago from 6,969,000 TEU, while volumes reached an average of over 1,300,000 TEU a month.

Loaded outbound containers led the rebound with a year-on-year increase of 11.4% to 2,127,000 TEU. The growth was also seen in the volume of inbound cargo, which at 2,207,000 TEU was up 16.3%.

The biggest port in Korea said it handled 3,485,000 TEU of transshipment cargoes, which was up 11.5% from 3,125,000 TEU. Meanwhile it widened the gap between Ningbo-Zhoushan Port while handling 717,000 TEU, almost 3% up on the 695,000 TEU from the corresponding period in 2010. The cargo volume of the whole world's top 10 ports increase by 8% to 90,623,000 TEU. <김보람 기자 brkim@ksg.co.kr>