Freight flows passing though the ports of China in January-February 2012 rose 7% year-over-year to 1.45 billion tons, the Transportation Ministry of China statistics said.
The two-month traffic at the nation’s seaports increased by 7.6% to 1.02 billion tons, in river ports – by 5.6% to 427,850,000 tons.
In the reporting period, container throughput grew by 8.5% to 25,460,000 TEUs.
The two-month traffic at the nation’s seaports increased by 7.6% to 1.02 billion tons, in river ports – by 5.6% to 427,850,000 tons.
In the reporting period, container throughput grew by 8.5% to 25,460,000 TEUs.
Shipments of containers through the country’s seaports rose 8.3% to 22.83 mln TEUs, from river ports – by 10.1% to 2.63 million TEUs.
In 2011, total container throughput at the country’s ports amounted to about 9 billion tons.