Container shipping volumes handled by Hong Kong's ports in December dropped 0.9 percent year-on-year to 2.12 million TEUs.
The Kwai Tsing container terminal, where the bulk of Hong Kong's shipping traffic is handled, recorded throughput of 1.53 million TEUs in December, up 11 percent from a year earlier.
Operators at Kwai Tsing include Wharf's Modern Terminal and Hutchison Whampoa's Hong Kong International Terminal.
Other cargo-handling areas recorded throughput of 590,000 TEUs, down 22.4 percent from a year ago.
For the full-year 2007, total container throughput at Hong Kong's ports reached 23.88 million TEUs, up 1.5 percent from 2006.
Kwai Tsing container terminal accounted for 17.32 million TEUs of the 2007 throughput, up 7.9 percent from 2006, while other cargo-handling areas processed 6.56 million TEUs, down 12.4 percent.
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