#container throughput

Container throughput in Caribbean ports declines by 8.2% last year

CARIBBEAN PORT: According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), container throughput in the Caribbean ports declined by 8.2% last year.

ECLAC said the “limited dynamism” of the region’s ports in 2014 was determined mainly by “the fall in the Caribbean area and on the east coast of South America, where in the first case transhipment operations represent a…

Hong Kong port business at risk due to decline in container throughput

HONG KONG: Hong Kong port business is at risk as its container throughput is pretty much static at the level of 10 years ago while the throughput of ports in Guangdong have climbed high. It is an alarming situation for Hong Kong that its port business can be in danger due to the decline in its container throughput.

But even the flat line for Hong Kong does not tell you how fast the port business…