Sydney Ports Container Trade Breaks Records for 2010/11

Sydney Ports Container Trade Breaks Records for 2010/11

Sydney Ports Corporation announced today that for the first time ever, container traffic through Port Botany had exceeded two million TEUs* in a financial year.

Sydney Ports Corporation Chief Executive Officer Grant Gilfillan said that the high volume of trade in the financial year 2010/11 had been led, not only by increased imports driven by the high Australian dollar, but by significant growth in the export of cereals, machinery and equipment and paper and timber products.

"In the financial year 2010/11, Sydney Ports recorded its tenth annual container throughput record with total container trade of over 2.020 million TEUs," Mr Gilfillan said today.

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