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To February the traffic of the goods in the Chinese marine ports is diminished of the -6,9% with a zero setting of the increase of the goods international
Drastic decrease of the -17,2% of containerized cargos
March 20, 2020
Last month the traffic of the goods in the Chinese ports is diminished considerably, reduction that - the data returned famous from the Ministry of Transportation of Beijing say today - is chargeable essentially to the contraction of the not compensated national traffic from the increase of the international traffic that indeed in last the three months has lost vigor until annulling itself. The decrease of the volumes of goods, beyond to other factors between which the war of the custom offices in existence with the USA whose effects however recently remarkablly have been attenuated, is sure chargeable mainly to the impact negative on the economy and the commercial exchanges of the spread of the coronavirus, than today it records in China about 81 thousand infected regarding 36 thousand of the Italy that is the second nation for number of contaminated.
Last month the traffic of the goods in the Chinese ports is piled to 795,7 million tons, with a bending of the -10,2% on the February 2019, of which 304,4 million tons only international traffic (+0.1%). The volume of traffic enlivened from the marine ports has been of 584,4 million tons (- 6.9%), of which 273,5 million international tons of goods (- 0.1%), while the inland port they have enlivened 211,3 million tons of cargos (- 18.0%), of which 3,1 million tons of international traffic (+1.4%).
More consisting the volumes than traffic are enlivened by the ports of Ningbo-Zhousan with 72,4 million tons (- 1.1%), Qingdao with 41,8 million tons (- 0.9%), Tangshan with 41,4 million tons (- 14.3%), Rizhao with 36,9 million tons (+3.6%), Shanghai with 36,3 million tons (- 16.9%), Guangzhou with 36,1 million tons (- 6.1%) and Tianjin with 31,3 million tons (+6.4%).
To February 2020 the single containerized trade enlivened from the Chinese ports has recorded a drastic decrease of the -17,9% coming down at less than 13,7 million teu, traffic flow of which the Chinese authorities they do not return note the relative quota to the single international exchanges. The single marine ports have enlivened 12,4 million teu (- 17.2%) and the internal ports 1,3 million teu (- 23.8%).
The main volumes of traffic are enlivened by the ports of Shanghai (2,3 million teu, -19,5%), Ningbo-Zhoushan (1,5 million teu, -21,0%), Qingdao (1,3 million teu, -6,9%), Shenzhen (1,2 million teu, -24,4%), Guangzhou (1,1 million teu, -17,9%) and Tianjin (910 thousand teu, -17,3%).
In the first period of two months of the 2020 total traffic of the goods enlivened from the Chinese ports it has been attested 1,87 billion to tons, with a decrease of the -6,0% on the same period of 2019, of which 685,4 billion tons of international cargos (+0.8%). The single marine ports have enlivened 1,34 billion tons (- 4.6%), of which 618,0 million tons of international traffic (+1.1%), and inland port 532,3 million the tons (- 9.3%), of which 67,4 million goods international (- 2.4%). The most important volumes than traffic are enlivened by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 163,3 million tons (- 1.8%), Tangshan with 96,2 million tons (- 10.1%), Qingdao with 92,7 million tons (+1.7%), Shanghai with 88,1 million tons (- 14.7%) and Guangzhou with 82,2 million tons (- 6.6%).
In the first two months of this year the traffic of the container has been pairs to 34,5 million teu (- 10.6%), of which 31,2 million teu enlivened from the marine ports (- 10.1%) and 3,3 million teu from internal ports (- 14.9%). More consisting the volumes than containerized trade are enlivened by the ports of Shanghai (5,9 million teu, -10,7%), Ningbo-Zhoushan (4,1 million teu, -10,7%), Shenzhen (3,5 million teu, -12,8%), Qingdao (3,2 million teu, -1,4%), Guangzhou (2,8 million teu, -13,7%) and Tianjin (2,3 million teu, -3,9%).
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