Port Botany Container Trade Growth Continues In December

Sydney Ports Corporation’s container trade volumes reached the highest throughput in Port Botany’s history.

“Total container trade through Port Botany, reached over 993,000 TEU’s for the six months to 31 December 2009, a new record representing a 0.8 per cent increase on the corresponding period last year,” Sydney Ports Corporation Chief Executive Officer Grant Gilfillan said today.

“While we welcome these positive signs for Port Botany and NSW, we recognise the rest of the world economy has not fully recovered which may impact on trade results for the second half of the financial year.

“Container trade figures for the month of December show an increase in full import containers of 16.2% with the leading import regions being East Asia 47%, South East Asia 15% & Europe 14%.”

The top imported products for the year to December 2009 were Beverages (up 13%) which include beer, spirits, mineral water; Miscellaneous Manufactures (up 5.5%) which includes mobile phones, printers copiers, telecommunications & general power material and Non metallic minerals (up 99.3%) which includes cement, ceramic tiles and glassware.

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