Singapore, the world's second busiest container port, handled larger box volumes in October, according to preliminary estimates by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

Singapore moved 2.82m teu of boxes last month, an improvement of 5.2% over 2.68m teu seen in the same month of last year, data from MPA showed.

Throughout in October also improved 3.7% compared to 2.72m teu recorded in September this year.

In the first 10 months of 2013, Singapore registered a total throughput of 27.13m teu, up 2.6% compared to 26.44m teu in the previous corresponding period.