Booming Brisbane

The port’s year end results reported that Brisbane’s container trade hit an all-time high of 875,069 teu (up 14.2% or 108,769 teu) with Brisbane eclipsing the growth through the ports of Melbourne and Sydney.

Import and export container trade recorded strong increases of 13.7% and 14.7% respectively. These significant increases were largely due to increased imports of retail products (up 14.5% to 169,468 teu), exports of empty containers (up 30.8% to 170,925 teu), and transhipped container trade, which increased dramatically by 79.2% to 45,148 teu. Exports of metal manufactures also increased by a massive 94.5% to 9,664 teu.

Both imports and exports of timber recorded strong growth (up 13.5% and 11.2% respectively).