Ningbo's container sales exports in 2007 surged 64.8 per cent over the year before to 226,500 TEU with a 69.5 per cent higher value of US$614 million, Xinhua reported.
Hong Kong is the largest export market of these boxes. Last year, Ningbo's exported containers to Hong Kong shot up 160 per cent to 80,100 TEU. The US was the second largest market where 53,200 TEU of Ningbo's container products were exported, down 11.5 per cent. The European Union was the third, buying 49,300 TEU, an increase of 89.7 per cent year on year.
Containers exported to the above three places took up 80.6 per cent of the total of Ningbo's box export.
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