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Cargo Statistics: Philadelphia

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The Port of Philadelphia in 2013 experienced its fourth consecutive year of double-digit cargo growth, and figures for January and February strongly point to a repeat performance in 2014.

Philadelphia Cargo Growth Continues Despite Adverse Weather

The Port of Philadelphia in 2013 experienced its fourth consecutive year of double-digit cargo growth, and figures for January and February strongly point to a repeat performance in 2014.

Despite record snow in the northeast and particularly in Philadelphia this past winter, the facilities of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority operated in business-as-usual fashion and saw several big increases in cargo. Highlights include the following:

Containerized cargo continued its upward trend; 60,713 TEUs were handled in January and February compared to the 45,517 TEUs handled during the same period of 2013, a 33 percent gain. Containerized cargo also increased, by 21 percent to 384,115 metric tons from 318,117 a year ago.

Break bulk200,266 tons, up 17 percent, largely due to a jump in steel cargo from 17,480 to 73,115 tons.

Automobiles: 25,718 mainly Hyundai and Kia autos imported from South Korea, up 50 percent from 17,143 autos in January-February 2013.

Liquid bulk: 232,963 tons, up 8 percent from 215,434 tons.

Total throughput for the two months amounted to 853,219 tons, a 17 percent increase from last year’s 728,309 tons.

"Last year the Port of Philadelphia handled 5,100,385 tons of cargo, a big 15 percent gain over 2012’s figures," said Charles G. Kopp, chairman of board of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. "That also marked the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth at the port. And now, as we are well into 2014, it looks like this year will continue our trend of the current year building on the last."


Photo taken March 25 of container activity at the Philadelphia’s busy Packer Avenue Marine Terminal.
Photo/Philadelphia Regional Port Authority

 

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