The Port of Kawasaki in Japan handled 7,358 TEUs of foreign-trade containers in July, up 20.9 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY), according to the Kawasaki City Government’s Port and Harbor Bureau.
Total container throughput, including domestic containers, amounted to 9,171 TEUs, up 23.3 per cent.
Exports accounted for 3,744 TEUs, up 37.6 per cent, which consisted of 798 TEUs of loaded containers, up 7.4 per cent, and 2,946 TEUs of empty containers, up 48.9 per cent.
The remaining 3,614 TEUs were imported, up 7.4 per cent, which comprised 3,599 TEUs of loaded containers, up 7.2 per cent, and 9 TEUs of empty containers. Meanwhile, domestic containers totalled 1,813 TEUs, up 34 per cent.
In the first seven months, Kawasaki processed 50,188 TEUs of foreign-trade containers, up 1.8 per cent. Including domestic containers, 65,102 TEUs were to and from the port, up 6.7 per cent.
Kawasaki exported 24,103 TEUs, up 4.8 per cent, which were made up of 4,544 TEUs of loaded containers, down 9.3 per cent, and 19,559 TEUs of empty containers, up 8.7 per cent.
Imports added up to 26,085 TEUs, down 0.9 per cent, of which 25,631 TEUs were loaded, down 1.4 per cent, and 454 TEUs were empty, up 38 per cent. Domestic containers came to 14,914 TEUs in total, up 27.7 per cent.
Last month, Daimler Truck AG, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to examine the development of a reliable, cost-effective supply chain for green liquid hydrogen via the Port of Hamburg to the European hinterland.
