The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) announced Thursday that March container traffic rose 5.7 percent over March 2010 to 120,265 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU's).
In the first three quarters of fiscal 2011, container shipping volume through the Port of Charleston rose 11.6 percent to 1,033,062 million TEU's, compared to 925,837 TEU's over the same period last year.
Over the first three quarters, breakbulk cargo, including automobiles, project cargo and heavy lift shipments, were up 48 percent to 754,000 net tons at the Ports of Charleston and Georgetown.