Cambodia’s 2nd largest port reports 16 pct rise in shipments last year

24 January 2014
Global Times
Economic policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Government / Government services / Infrastructure / International relations / Phnom Penh / Securities exchange (stock market) / Sihanoukville / Transport and shipping / Transport and shipping policy and administration / Urban administration and development
Cambodian Securities Exchange / Chinese aid / Hei Bavy / Lou Kim Chhun / Phnom Penh Autonomous Port / Sihanoukville Autonomous Port / Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU)

Cargo shipments entering and leaving Cambodia through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port rose by 16 percent in 2013 thanks to better economic situation, according to a port’s data on Friday. The kingdom’s 2nd largest port received 110,500 twenty-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs (standard-sized containers), last year, up 16 percent from 95,333 TEUs in a year earlier, showed the data. The port’s director general Hei Bavy attributed the growth to the rising shipments of garment products, construction materials, and agricultural products such as milled rice, dry rubber and cassava. …

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