Singapore's NOL carried 34 pct more containers in May

SINGAPORE, June 21 (Reuters) - Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), the world's fifth-biggest container shipping firm, said on Monday it carried 34 percent more containers in the four weeks to May 28 compared with a year ago.

NOL said in a statement it carried the equivalent of 212,600
40
foot containers (FEUs) on its ships in the period, up from
159,100 a year earlier, as intra-Asia and trans
Pacific trade continued to recover.

The average revenue in the period from each container rose to $2,768, up 19 percent from a year earlier.

(Reporting by Kevin Lim)
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