Cargo shipments at Cambodia’s two largest ports see remarkable rise in 11 months

The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia's largest shipping facility, on Tuesday reported a 12 percent rise in cargo shipments in the first eleven months of 2013. The state-owned sea port had received 2.73 million tonnes of goods during the January-November period this year, up from 2.43 million tonnes over the same period last year, showed the port's figures. ... Meanwhile, the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, the kingdom's 2nd largest port, also recorded a 17 percent surge in cargo shipments during the first eleven months of the year. About 100,840 twenty-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs (standard- sized containers), passed through the port in the year up to the end of November, compared with 86,340 TEUs over the same period last year, the port's report said. ...

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