Throughput of Chinese ports up 5.7% to 1.7 bln t in Jan-Feb'14

In January-February 2014, the ports of China increased their throughput by 5.7%,  year-on- year, to  1.7 bln t of cargo, says the Ministry of Transport of the Government of the People's Republic of China. In the accounting period seaports of China handled 1.21 bln t (+7%), river ports – 485.4 mln t (+2.5%).

Container throughput climbed by 5.9% to 29.4 mln TEUs including 26.48 mln TEUs in seaports (+6.7%) and 2.9 mln TEUs in river ports (-0.4%).