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Increase in cargo on China route

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THE annual container cargo transport capacity in the Japan-China trade totalled more than 1.22 million TEUs as of January 15, according to the Japan-China Marine Transportation Council.

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This was up 24.7 per cent over the figures provided by the council in March last year.

Chinese ships carried 891,036 TEUs, up 7.3 per cent, while Japanese vessels carried 148,116 TEUs, up a staggering 65.8 per cent.

Another 186,432 TEUs were hauled by four third-party carriers --Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), American President Lines (APL), Maersk Line and Sea-Land Service.

The Japanese vessel capacity was boosted by the opening of the Shanghai route by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Mitsui OSK Line (MOL) and the expansion of the Dalian route by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line) last year.

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However, the council assumed that not all the space on NYK and MOL vessels was used for their Shanghai-Japan operations.

This is because NYK uses space on its Honolulu service every other week for the Japan-China trade, while MOL uses space on its Japan-South America service vessels mid-way between Japan and China.

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