COSCO Pacific sees big throughput gains for December, year

COSCO Pacific, the terminal operating arm of China's COSCO Group, saw its global throughput rise 30.9 percent in December to 3.9 million TEUs, which is an improvement from 3 million TEUs handled in the same month in 2006.

For all of 2007, COSCO Pacific handled 39.8 million TEUs at its 19 terminals (16 of which are in China), up 20.5 percent from the 23.8 million TEUs moved in 2006.