The Port of Melbourne has set a new monthly record in the amount of containers it moved in and out of the port last month.
The record “throughput” totalled 177,906 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) – the industry standard container size – surpassing the previous best of 170,895 TEU in October 2005.
The total container throughput for the previous 12 months to August 2006 set an Australian record of 1.953 million TEU, or more than the combined total for Brisbane, Adelaide and Fremantle.