Singapore port handled record 39.01 million shipping containers in 2023

In all, Singapore’s terminals handled 591.7 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, an increase from 578.2 million tonnes in 2022. - ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s port handled a record 39.01 million shipping containers, or twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), in 2023, eclipsing its previous record of 37.57 million TEUs in 2021, said Acting Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat.

In 2022, the port handled 37.29 million TEUs.