In the second quarter, the traffic of goods with overseas in Chinese seaports decreased by -2.0% percent

In the container sector alone, in June 2022 traffic was found to be 25.8 million teu (+ 6.5%), of which 22.7 million in seaports (+ 6.3%) and 3.1 million in inland ports (+ 7.6%).

In the second quarter of 2022 the overall traffic volume was 3.95 billion tons, with a decrease of -2.9% percent on the April-June period of last year, of which 2.55 billion tons handled by seaports (-1.5% percent) and 1.40 billion from inland ports (-5.4%). The only traffic with overseas stood at 1.16 billion tonnes (-2.8%), of which 1.04 billion tonnes were passed through seaports (-2.0%) and 124 million tonnes through inland ports (-8.5%). National traffic was 2.79 billion tonnes (-3.0%), of which 1.51 billion (-1.2%) and 1.27 billion tonnes (-5.1%) respectively in seaports and inland ports were

In the first half of this year, Chinese ports handled 7.58 billion tons of cargo, with a -0.8% percent decline in the first six months of 2021, including 4.97 billion tonnes in seaports (+ 0.1%) and 2.61 billion tonnes of cargo. tonnes in inland ports (-2.5%). The only traffic with foreign was 2.27 billion tonnes (-3.7%), with 2.04 billion tonnes handled by seaports (-2.7%) and 231.1 million tonnes from inland ports (-11.5%). The national traffic was 5.31 billion tonnes (+ 0.5%), of which 2.93 billion tonnes in seaports (+ 2.1%) and 2.38 billion in inland ports (-1.5%).

Relatively to international traffic, in the first six months of 2022 the largest volume of cargo was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 296.1 million tonnes (+ 2.6%) followed by the ports of Qingdao with 238.7 million tonnes (+ 1.4%), Shanghai with 195.2 million tonnes (-4.6%), Rizhao with 161.2 million tonnes (-5.6%), Tianjin with 152.9 million tonnes (+ 2.8%), Tangshan with 125.0 million tonnes (-3.0%) and Shenzhen with 103.3 million tonnes (+ 2.2%).

In the first half of this year alone container traffic was globally admoned to 142.3 million teu (+ 3.0%), of which 125.6 million teu handled by seaports (+ 3.0%) and 16.7 million teu from inland ports (+ 3.0%). The largest volume of containerized traffic was handled by the port of Shanghai with 22.5 million teu (-1.7%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 17.5 million teu (+ 8.7%), Shenzhen with 14.4 million teu (+ 4.7%), Qingdao with 12.5 millions of teu (+ 6.9%), Guangzhou with 11.7 million teu (-0.3%) and Tianjin with 10.5 million teu (+ 2.1%).