Sri Lanka's Colombo port registers transshipment growth
21 Mar 24 2 min read
Insights
- In February, the Port of Colombo saw transshipment volume growth accelerate for third consecutive month, with 29.1 per cent year-on-year increase.
- This growth is primarily driven by ongoing disruptions in Red Sea.
- Data from IMF's PortWatch underlined in first two months of 2024, trade volume through the Suez Canal went down by 50 per cent Y-o-Y.
This is as per media reports, which added this February the volume of transshipment handled by Port of Colombo reached 528,348 TEUs even if the port witnessed double digit transshipment volume growth since December 2023.
Reports further added in December last year, the transshipment volumes handled by the port went up by 10.4 per cent Y-o-Y to 515,404 TEUs while in in January this year, it accelerated 25.5 per cent Y-o-Y to 562,527 TEUs.
The overall container throughput at the port in February this year also witnessed a robust growth, rising by 32.9 per cent Y-o-Y to 646,407 TEUs even as transshipment volumes accounted for a substantial 82 per cent of the total throughput.
Meanwhile, data from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) PortWatch underlined that in the first two months of 2024, trade volume through the Suez Canal went down by 50 per cent Y-o-Y even as almost nearly half of all cargo ships and tankers diverted to alternative routes around the Cape of Good Hope following attacks on commercial ships in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
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