In 2020, Chinese seaports moveded 9.48 billion tons of goods (+3.2%)

In 2020, the largest volume of traffic moved from the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 1.17 billion tonnes (+4.7%) followed by tangshan ports with 702.6 million (+7.0%), Shanghai with 651.0 million tonnes (-1,9%). The 2020 ranking for freight traffic only with foreign moved by Chinese ports sees in first place always Ningbo-Zhoushan with 536.8 million tons (+4.7%) followed by Qingdao with 444.6 million tons (+5.9%), Shanghai with 338.6 million tonnes (-2.0%), Rizhao with 319.1 million tonnes tonnes (+5.1%), Tangshan with 295.9 million tonnes (+6.7%), Tianjin with 284.7 million tonnes (+2.2%), Shenzhen with 189.0 million tonnes (+6.0%), Dalian with 163.5 million tonnes tons (-1.0%), Yantai with 144.1 million tons (+1.7%) And Guangzhou with 142.2 million tons (0%).

In 2020, the only container traffic passed through the chinese ports amounted to 264.3 million teu, with a increase of +1.2% on the previous year, of which 234.3 million moved by seaports (+1.5%) and 30.0 million teu from inland ports (-0.5%). The higher volumes of traffic containerized were moved from shanghai ports with 43.5 million teu (+0.5%), Ningbo-Zhoushan with 28.7 million teu (+4.3%), Shenzhen with 26.5 million teu (+3.0%), Guangzhou with 23.2 million teu (+1.5%), Qingdao with 22.0 million teu (+4.7%), Tianjin with 18.3 million teu (+6.1%) and Xiamen with 11.4 million teu (+2.5%).

In the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, Chinese ports 3.94 billion tonnes of goods, with an increase of +8.1% over the corresponding period of the year of which 2.46 billion tonnes were moveded by ports maritime workers (+4.9%) and 1.48 billion from in-house ports (+13.7%). The international traffic alone amounted to 1.13 billion tonnes (+3.6%), of which 996.8 million tonnes passed through seaports (+2.9%) and 131.6 million through the inland port (+8.6%).

In the last quarter of last year, traffic containerised amounted to 71.7 million teu (+8.8%), of which 63.1 million teu moved from seaports (+9.0%) And 8.6 million teu from in-house ports (+7.9%).

In December 2020 alone, the total traffic of goods amounted to 1.30 billion tonnes, with a increase of +5.5% on December 2019, of which 807.8 million tonnes in seaports (+3.0%) and 493.2 million in ports (+9.7%). International traffic alone was equal to total to 362.8 million tonnes (+1.9%), of which 318.8 million tonnes million tonnes in seaports (+1.7%) and 44.1 million in inland ports (+3.3%).