After 15 consecutive months of growth, goods traffic in Chinese seaports fell by -4.2% in July

In respect of international goods traffic only handled in July 2021 by Chinese ports, it too is result down after 15 consecutive months of increase that were followed the -0.6% decline in March 2020. Last month the total international traffic was 387.0 million tonnes (-4.7%), of which 347.3 million tonnes handled by seaports (-4.3%) and 39.7 million tonnes from inland ports.

Among the main Chinese ports by volume of cargo international handled, in July 2021 the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan handled 43.0 million tonnes, with a -12.2% contraction caused by the stoppage for several days of the activities at the Meishan terminal of the port port due - had specified the Chinese authorities - to the ascertainment of a single contagion from Covid-19. Last month, however, traffic of international goods increased by +3.7% in the port of Qingdao which handled 40.1 million The commission's commission was able to take the lead in the Shanghai (32.5 million tons, -6.8%), Rizhao (27.5 million of tons, -2.0%), Tianjin (24.6 million tons, -8.2%) and Tangshan (20.0 million tonnes (-29.2%).

As for container traffic alone, the last month Chinese ports handled a total of 23.7 million teu (-0.5%), of which 21.0 million TEU handled from seaports (-1.2%) and 2.7 million teu from inland ports (+5,4%). The most significant volumes of containerized traffic were handled by the ports of Shanghai (3.7 million teu, -5.1%), Ningbo-Zhoushan (2.6 million teu, -3.7%), Shenzhen (2.4 million teu, -0.8%), Qingdao (2.1 million teu, +11.2%), Guangzhou (2.0 million teu, -3.3%) and Tianjin (1.8 million teu, +8,2%).

In the first seven months of this year the ports Chinese have handled globally 8.91 billion tons of goods, with an increase of +11.3% on the corresponding period of 2020, of which 5.78 billion tons handled by ports maritime (+8.0%) and 3.13 billion from inland ports (+17.9%).

International traffic only eventful in the period January-July of 2021 was equal to 2.74 billion tons (+7.0%), of which 2.44 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+6.4%) and 300.7 million of tons from inland ports (+11.5%).

The largest volume of traffic international was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 331.6 million tons (+8.1%), followed by Qingdao ports with 275.5 million tons (+6.4%), Shanghai with 237.1 million tons (+9.2%), Rizhao with 198.2 million tons (+6.1%), Tianjin with 173.4 million tons (+5.8%), Tangshan with 148.8 million tons (-12.7%) and Shenzhen with 118.8 million tonnes (+19.9%).

In the first seven months of this year the only container traffic amounted to 161.9 million teu (+12.4%), of which 143.0 million teu handled by ports maritime (+11.5%) and 18.9 million teu from inland ports (+19.7%). Among the main ports by volume of containerized traffic, Shanghai handled 26.6 million teu (+11.2%), Ningbo-Zhoushan 18.7 million teu (+17.0%), Shenzhen 16.1 million of teu (+19.8%), Guangzhou 13.8 million teu (+7.4%), Qingdao 13.7 million teu (+12.5%), Tianjin 12.1 million teu (+18.1%) and Xiamen 7.0 million teu (+10.5%).