China’s Shanghai port handled a higher volume of containers in May over the previous corresponding period, while volumes remained stable month-on-month.

The world’s busiest container port posted container throughput of 3.02m teu in May, up 2.8% compared to 2.94m teu recorded in the same month of 2013, data from Shanghai International Port (Group) Co (SIPG) showed.

Last month’s throughput was stable compared to 3.02m teu in April this year.

In the first five months of 2014, Shanghai moved a total throughput of 14.21m teu, up 4.7% from 13.57m teu in the same period of last year.