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In August, freight traffic in Chinese ports fell again
Significant reduction (-6.0%) in foreign trade handled by seaports
September 28, 2022
The only traffic of goods to and from abroad is attested to 384.0 million tons, with a contraction of the -6.1% on August 2021, of which 342.5 million tons in ports maritime (-6.0%) and 41.5 million tons in inland ports (-7,0%). Last month the largest volume of goods international was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 107.9 million tons (-0.7%) followed by ports of Tangshan with 71.1 million tons (+12.3%), Shanghai with 60.0 million tons (-8.9%), Qingdao with 56.2 million tons tons (+5.1%), Guangzhou with 53.7 million tons (+1.3%), Tianjin with 48.5 million tons (+6.4%), Rizhao with 47.4 million tons (+6.4%) and Yantai with 38.2 million tons tons (+8.3%).
In August of this year the only container traffic is state pairs to 25,7 million teu (+3.8%), of which 22,6 million teu enlivened by Chinese seaports (+2.9%) and 3.1 million teu from the inland ports of the Asian nation (+11.0%). The largest volume of containerized traffic was handled by the port of Shanghai with 4.2 million teu (- 3.5%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 2.9 million teu (+9.7%), Shenzhen with 2.5 million teu (-2.0%), Qingdao with 2.2 million teu (+8.8%), Guangzhou with 2.1 million teu (+2.4%), Tianjin with 2.0 million teu teu (+11.5%) and Xiamen with 1.0 million teu (+1.0%).
In the first eight months of 2022 the total traffic of goods in Chinese ports amounted to 10.24 billion tons, with a decrease of -0.1% on the corresponding period of last year, of which 6.68 billion tons were handled by seaports (+0.6%) and 3.56 billion tons from the inland port (-1.6%). Container traffic alone was 194.4 million teu (+4.1%), of which 171.5 million in ports maritime (+4.0%) and 22.9 million in inland ports (+5.5%).
In the period January-August of this year the only traffic of international goods totaled 3.05 billion tons (-3.3%), of which 2.73 billion tons in seaports (-2.6%) and 314.1 million tons in inland ports (-9.0%).
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The only traffic of goods to and from abroad is attested to 384.0 million tons, with a contraction of the -6.1% on August 2021, of which 342.5 million tons in ports maritime (-6.0%) and 41.5 million tons in inland ports (-7,0%). Last month the largest volume of goods international was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 107.9 million tons (-0.7%) followed by ports of Tangshan with 71.1 million tons (+12.3%), Shanghai with 60.0 million tons (-8.9%), Qingdao with 56.2 million tons tons (+5.1%), Guangzhou with 53.7 million tons (+1.3%), Tianjin with 48.5 million tons (+6.4%), Rizhao with 47.4 million tons (+6.4%) and Yantai with 38.2 million tons tons (+8.3%).
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