1.   Container traffic is down in once-congested seaports.

2.   Hutchison Port already handles two thirds of container traffic in Hong Kong, the busiest container port in the world.

3.   Subic Bay officials said they remain concerned that if ICTSI is given the contract, the company will have a virtual monopoly over container traffic in the country.

4.   The delays, combined with an increase in container traffic, paralyzed the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports.

5.   With the imminent completion of Deltaport, Seattle and Tacoma port officials all but concede Canada-bound container traffic to their northern competitor.

6.   It is the sixth-biggest port in the world for container traffic.

7.   The agreement concerns container traffic only but P and O had undertaken to work closely with NedLloyd as a road haulier.