Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), the world's sixth-largest container shipping firm, carried six percent more containers in the four weeks to Nov. 12 compared with a year ago.

NOL said in a statement it shipped the equivalent of 220,800 40-foot containers (FEU) on its vessels in the period, up from 208,000 a year earlier, due mainly to higher volumes carried on the intra-Asia and Asia-Europe trade lanes.

The average revenue in the period from each container was $2,797, up 25 percent from the year ago period. (Reuters)