News / Laem Chabang expansion continues despite hiccup in container throughput

Container volumes at Thailand’s Laem Chabang port remained flat last year, despite a big uptick in US-bound cargo.

According to Alphaliner, Thailand recorded a 17.8% increase in export volumes to the US in 2019, reaching 620,000 teu. This increase was second only to Vietnam, where volumes jumped 34.8% to 1.5m teu.

However, a spokesman for Hutchison Ports Thailand (HPT), the largest terminal operator at Laem Chabang, the country’s key shipping gateway, said the increase in US cargo volumes had not been not ...