Port more active over nine months

Cargo shipments via Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), Cambodia’s second largest port, rose by 16 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months. The Port Authority said yesterday the rise was mainly due to the increase of import and export activities for garments, agricultural and construction materials. The official data from the port showed that the port received about 70,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) between January to the end of September this year, an increase 16 per cent, from 60,000 TEUs in the same period last year. … The PPAP’s revenue rose by 20 per cent year-on-year to $8.25 million in 2011 from $6.5 million in 2010.  …

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