Airfreight movements at Singapore Changi Airport increased  1.1 percent in July year-over-year, with 160,000 tonnes of cargo passing through the airport last month.

For the period of January to July 2013, airfreight shipments grew 1.3 percent to 1.1 million tonnes compared to the first seven months of 2012.

Meanwhile, Changi Airport Group (Singapore), which manages the airport, said that it has updated its cargo throughput figures for July 2012-June 2013.

The revised monthly breakdown shows that January 2013 tonnage was 145,808 tonnes, up 6.6 percent year-over-year. Updated February airfreight volume is 131,123 tonnes, an 8.9 percent drop from the same month in 2012, while new March figures are 172,997 tonnes, an increase of 6 percent from 2012.

April tonnage reached 151,163 tonnes, a 2 percent growth year-over-year; May cargo movements totaled 153,291, a 0.3 percent hike; and June traffic volume amounted to 156,177 tonnes for a 1.9 percent expansion.

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