Freight traffic through the seaports of China in January 2010 reached 636.76 million tons, a 32-percent rise over January last year, the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China report said.

 

Of the overall volumes seaports showed a 30.4% rise, at 439.48 million tons, river ports a 38.9% growth, to 197.28 million tons. Containers turnover at the ports of China in the reporting period rose by 25%, up to 11.355.000 TEUs, including seaports that handled 10.27 million TEUs (+23.3%), and the river ports that showed a 51.3% surge, more than 1 million TEUs.

Port of Shanghai is the largest seaport by volumes of handled cargo, which boosted its throughput by 45%, to 48.7 million tons, Tianjin gained 12.7%, Qingdao port added 9.4%. Containers turnover at the port of Shanghai in January this year grew by 18.3%, to 2.25 million TEUs.

The total freight volumes via the ports of China reached 7 billion tons in 2009.