The Colombo Port achieved a 27.7% increase in transshipment volume in January compared to January 2023.The Port is receiving a bigger container volume as major shipping lines are rerouting their ships in view of the Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
Transshipment traffic has increased by 89,778 Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to 236,571 TEUs at the Jaya Container Terminal.
There has also been an increase of 13,437 TEUs at the South Asia Gateway Terminal, whose total volume now is 141,971 TEUs. The Colombo International Container Terminal is currently handling 306,664 TEUs; there has been an increase of 45,545 TEUs in its volume.
The total increase in volumes at the Colombo Port has reached 685,206 TEUs, with about 203 vessels calling at the port.
The TEU volume at the Hambantota International Port (HIP) too has increased by 26 percent compared to 2022 figures.
Earlier, Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA) Chairman Keith Bernard said the Port of Colombo was targeting around 7 million Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers in 2024.
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