[PHNOM PENH POST]
Sihaoukville Autonomous Port saw an annualised 14 percent increase on
freight shipments in the first three months of 2011, officials said.
Port
Deputy Director General Ma Sun Hot said the increases in shipments of
most categories of goods, though imports of oil products decreased in
the first quarter.
“We saw that everything jumped in the first
quarter,” he said, adding shipments would likely continue to increase
over the course of the year.
Some 53,950 twenty-foot equivalent
units (TEUs) were shipped through the port in the first three months, up
14.4 percent from 47,170 TEUs in the same period last year.
Coal
shipments in particular increased during the period, with the port
shipping 40,000 tonnes, from 23,000 tonnes during the same period last
year, he said. Sihanoukville Port had also handled more shipments of
garments, rice, vehicles, machinery, and construction material, as well
as 10,000 tonnes of acacia wood bound for China.
However, oil
products dropped, with 163,808 tonnes imported through the port, a 3.1
percent decline on oil imports in the same period last year.
Meanwhile,
So Nguon Group saw an increase of about 3 percent year on year for its
haulage business so far in 2011, said President So Nguon, adding the
growth came largely through increased garment business.
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