Cambodia city port sees 16% surge in shipments in 9 months

Cambodia city port sees 16% surge in shipments in 9 months

Container traffic through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Cambodia's second largest port, increased by 16 percent in the first nine months of this year thanks to increasing import and export activities in garments and construction materials, the port authority said on Wednesday.

A port report released on Wednesday showed that from January to September this year, the port received about 70,000 twenty-foot- equivalent units, or TEUs, up 16 percent from 60,000 TEUs ( standard-d containers) in the same period last year.

Goods go through the port including garments, agricultural products, construction materials, agricultural machinery, raw materials for garment production and consuming products.

Hei Bavy, the port's director general, said that the rise was due to the increasing import and export activities, especially in garments and construction materials.

In March last year, to meet with the increasing demand of shipments, the port began to build a container terminal with a total capacity of 120,000 TEUs per year under a Chinese soft loan of 28.2 million U.S. dollars. The construction of the new terminal will be completed in late 2013

xinhua