In the January-September period this year, the overall freight volume transported on China’s waterways (rivers, lakes, seas) amounted to 4.91835 billion mt, increasing by 6.4 percent year on year, while the freight traffic volume on the country’s waterways totaled 7.33156 trillion mt-km, rising by 3.5 percent year on year, according to the latest data issued by China’s Ministry of Transportation (MOT).