Canadian Port of Metro Vancouver’s monthly container volumes
have been strong throughout 2012, and that trend continued in November 2012,
with the facility’s terminals moving over 234,400 TEUs last month, raising the
Canadian port’s calendar year-to-date total to just under 2.5 million TEUs.
The port continues to have a robust year so far when it
comes to both full and empty container movement. The port saw almost 202,600
full TEUs in November, about 103,900 of which were inbound and over 98,700
outbound.
For the year to date, container terminals at the port have
moved a total of 2.02 million full TEUs, with 1.24 million of those being
imported into the country.
Regarding empty TEUs, Metro Vancouver saw about 31,700 last
month, more than 21,700 of which were outbound and 10,000 inbound. Through the
first 11 months of the calendar year, port terminals saw over 290,400 empty TEUs,
with about 200,000 of those being shipped out of the country.
Metro Vancouver’s total TEU volume was up 8.5 percent in the
first 11 months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, according to port
data.
Port Metro Vancouver is the largest port by container
traffic in Canada and fourth largest in North America, after the ports of Los Angeles,
Long Beach and New York/New Jersey.
