Container throughput is showing a steady increase at Singapore's ports.
For the fourth consecutive month, the port authority has reported a growth in its throughput figures.
In February, a total of 2.8 million TEU were moved, up from 1.85 million TEU in February last year. The figures from the port regulatory body, the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore represents an 18 percent increase in container volumes.
But on month-on-month terms the February numbers were 6.4 percent lower than January's two percent increase from last December.
Major port operator PSA International handled 2.11 million TEU in February, down from 2.26million in January.
Jurong Port, on the other hand, moved 74,400 boxes up from 72,000TEU the month earlier.
"Exports and re-exports are picking up in line with the global economy evident in trade data across the region," said David Cohen of Action Economics.
Trade slumped to its worst level in decades last year at Singapore ports.
Sammy Lee