By port, container throughput was brisk at Busan, which processed 1.767 million TEUs, up 11.5%. Double-digit improvements were made for both exports and imports, and T/S containers, which surged 11.5% to 886,000 TEUs and 11.4% to 880,000 TEUs.

Container lifting was favorable at Inchon as well, jumping 14.2% to 255,000 TEUs, as those to and from China and Vietnam were both robust, which climbed 14.1% and 16.3%, respectively.

On the other hand, containers to and from Kwangyang were slow, diminishing 13.6% to 182,000 TEUs.

In the first four months (January-April), containerizes shipments to and from South Korea increased 4.5% from a year earlier to 8.5 million TEUs in total. In breakdown, 6.651 million TEUs were moved to and from Busan, up 4.1%; 952,000 TEUs to and from Inchon, up 18.6% and 716,000 TEUs to and from Kwangyang, down 9.3%.