DESPITE reports of lacklustre volume globally throughput during September at the Shenzhen port's Chiwan container terminal rose by 13.5 per cent to 352,000 TEU with an overall 32.7 per cent year-on-year increase to 4.6 million TEU in the first nine months of the year.

The spike was attributed to the terminal's expansion of international services and its focus on rail links, barge services and networks to container depots to pull in cargo from China's interior to the second largest port in the country and fourth globally.