Valenciaport exceeds 4 million containers at the end of October

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Valencia, November the 28^th 2017. – Valenciaport closed the month of October with 4,043,251 TEU (unit of measure equivalent to a container of twenty feet, up 1.73% compared to the same period of the previous year and consolidates the growth path of the site. This increase is based on the good performance of full containers, both import and export, and transit. In this way, foreign trade of full containers has registered an increase of 6.07%. Specifically, exports advanced 6.61%, with 46,651 TEU more than in the same period of 2016; while imports registered an increase of 5.34%, with 27,978 TEU more. The transit of containers also maintains the positive trend with an increase of 5.16% and a total of 2,214,153 TEU. On the other hand, empty import and export containers evolve negatively, decreasing by 17.9%.