Hong Kong’s main terminals see 7% fall in box traffic in September

Hong Kong’s main terminals see 7% fall in box traffic in September    Kwai Chung, the main container terminal complex of the port of Hong Kong, suffered another monthly decrease in box traffic in September, with box volumes falling by 6.6 percent, to 1.1 million TEUs.
   The Kwai Chung terminals handle about two thirds of Hong Kong’s container traffic.
   A spokesman for Hong Kong’s port development council said that the decrease was caused by the “high comparison base” of September 2002, when shippers rushed exports to the U.S. because of labor problems at West Coast ports last year.
   For the first nine months of this year, the Kwai Chung terminals handled a total of 9 million TEUs, 2.9 percent more than in the corresponding period of 2002.