CARGO handled by ports along Pearl River accounted for 22.7 per cent of Hong Kong's port throughput in 2008, report Xinhua.
Ports along the Pearl River handled 344 million tonnes of cargo or seven million TEU, some 50 per cent of China's total. Thirty-three per cent of coals imported to the Pearl River Delta as well as 50 per cent of oil and gas and 66 per cent of the grain was transported by water.
Over 200 million tonnes were handled by larger south China coastal ports like Guangzhou and Shenzhen and were collected or distributed via Pearl River in 2008.
There were 200,000 ship movements entering and exiting Hong Kong from inland rivers with a cargo volume reaching 60 million tonnes. Ports along the Pearl River contributed about six million TEU to Hong Kong last year, composing 22.7 per cent of the region's total.
"As ports and shipping companies in Pearl River Delta have been impaired by global financial crisis, we will strengthen cooperation in shipping sector to cope with the recession, and bring inland river's advantage into full play to help the region's economy development," said bureau chief Lian Jianwei of Pearl River Administration of Navigational Affairs, a section of the Ministry of Communications.
Ports along the Pearl River handled 344 million tonnes of cargo or seven million TEU, some 50 per cent of China's total. Thirty-three per cent of coals imported to the Pearl River Delta as well as 50 per cent of oil and gas and 66 per cent of the grain was transported by water.
Over 200 million tonnes were handled by larger south China coastal ports like Guangzhou and Shenzhen and were collected or distributed via Pearl River in 2008.
There were 200,000 ship movements entering and exiting Hong Kong from inland rivers with a cargo volume reaching 60 million tonnes. Ports along the Pearl River contributed about six million TEU to Hong Kong last year, composing 22.7 per cent of the region's total.
"As ports and shipping companies in Pearl River Delta have been impaired by global financial crisis, we will strengthen cooperation in shipping sector to cope with the recession, and bring inland river's advantage into full play to help the region's economy development," said bureau chief Lian Jianwei of Pearl River Administration of Navigational Affairs, a section of the Ministry of Communications.