In January-October 2018, sea and river ports of China increased their cargo throughput by 5.1%, year-on-year, to 11.51 billion tonnes, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said. In the reporting period, October throughput grew by 4.3%, year-on-year, to 1.21 billion tonnes.
Throughput of seaports in January-October grew by 3.7% to 7.63 billion tonnes.
In 2018, Chinese seaports handed 9.22 billion tonnes of cargo.