Shanghai port's box volume grows 10.5 percent in H1
Container traffic at the Port of Shanghai rose in the first half of this year by 10.5% from a year earlier, to 15.3 million TEUs, Xinhua reported.Inbound containers increased 9.8 per cent to 7.5 million TEU while outbound boxes were up 11.2 per cent to 7.8 million TEU.
Sea-river intermodal boxes increased 19.3 per cent, or 1.04 million TEU, to 6.4 million TEU, taking up 42 per cent of the total.
Shanghai overall throughput in this period rose 10.3 per cent to 353 million tonnes. Inbound cargo grew 8.3 per cent to 221 million tonnes. Outbound cargo jumped 14 per cent to 132 million tonnes. Foreign trade cargo increased 9.2 per cent to 163 million tonnes.
The port distributed 445 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, up 6.9 per cent with 353 million tonnes going by waterway, taking up 79.4 per cent of the total.