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Beijing anticipates 7% box traffic decline
China’s Ministry of Transport estimates that container throughput at the country’s ports will decrease by 7% this year because of the global economic downturn.
The country’s coastal and river ports handled 126M TEUs in 2008, up more than 13% over the 2007 figure. In the first eight months of this year, China’s ports handled 77.72M TEU, down 9% from the same period last year. Coastal ports handled 70.07M TEU, down 8.8%, and river ports shifted 7.65M TEU, down 11.3%.
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