China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in October this year the overall freight volume transported on China’s waterways (rivers, lakes, seas) amounted to 560 million mt, up seven percent year on year, while the freight traffic volume on the country’s waterways totaled 828.2 billion mt-km,decreasing by 0.3 percent year on year.
In the January-October period of the current year, freight volumes on China’s waterways totaled 5.11 billion mt, up 4.1 percent, while the freight traffic volume amounted to 7.5935 trillion mt-km, increasing by 0.1 percent, both year on year.