Container volume at Port Everglades rose 9.1 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, as growth in empty-container shipments outpaced an 0.7 percent rise in full 20-foot-equivalent units.
The Florida port handled 282,356 TEUs in the first quarter, compared with 258,749 TEUs a year earlier. Full containers totaled 197,030 TEUs, compared with 184,606 in the first quarter of 2014.
Total TEUs in March, the most recent month available, were 102,421, compared with 95,941 in March 2014. Full containers totaled 72,016 TEUs, compared with 69,281 TEUs a year earlier.
Volume was balanced between incoming and outbound loads. March inbound volume totaled 51,586 TEUs, including 34,142 full TEUs, while outbound boxes totaled 50,858 TEUs, including 37,874 full TEUs.
During the first half of the port’s October-September fiscal year, Port Everglades handled 271,715 TEUs, a gain of nearly 8 percent, while outbound shipments totaled 273,479 TEUs, an increase of nearly 9 percent.