The port of Singapore handled higher container throughput in April over the same period of last year, according to preliminary estimates from Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

Box volumes were recorded at 2.79m teu last month, an improvement of 6.1% over 2.63m teu seen in April 2013, data from MPA showed.

On a month-on-month comparison, April’s volumes were 1.4% lower compared to 2.83m teu registered in March this year.

In the first four months of 2014, the world’s second busiest container port recorded throughput of 10.73m teu, up 4.6% compared to 10.26m teu in the corresponding period of last year.