In the January-August period of this year, freight volumes handled at large ports in China totaled 8.80726 billion mt, up 2.3 percent year on year, according to the latest data issued by China’s Ministry of Transportation (MOT). In particular, in the January-August period the foreign trade freight volume handled at large ports in China totaled 2.77918 billion mt, rising by 2.5 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, in the given period containers handled at large ports in China amounted to 164.1233 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), increasing by 4.9 percent year on year.