As of November 2023, with a total of 1.48 billion tonnes of goods passed through the docks, Chinese ports recorded a +7.3% increase in cargo volumes handled compared to November 2022 as well as the new traffic record for the November is the third highest traffic volume ever, lower only than the record volumes handled in October and August of 2023. Last November, seaports alone moved 919.7 million tonnes of freight, representing the new high for this month and a growth of +5.6% on the November 2022, while China's inland ports alone handled 560.5 million tonnes, which is a new record for the month of November and represents an increase of +10.3% over November 2022.

As of November 2023, the only traffic of goods to and from abroad is amounted to a total of 422.8 million tonnes (+5.6%), of which 380.0 million tonnes passed through seaports (+6.1%) and 42.9 million tonnes through inland ports (+1,6%).

Last November, the highest volume of traffic was handled from the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 101.7 million tonnes (+0.6%), of which 45.2 million tonnes of goods (+10.5%). This is followed by the port of Tangshan with 72.8 million tonnes (+18.7%), of which 28.7 million tonnes international cargoes (+11.6%), the port of Shanghai with 65.2 million tonnes (+9.6%), of which 36.8 million tonnes of international cargo (+3.6%), the port of Guangzhou with 55.8 million tonnes (+3.3%), of which 13.7 million tonnes of goods (+8.7%), and the port of Qingdao with 55.1 million tonnes (+1.2%), of which 39.6 million tonnes of goods (+2.7%).

As of November 2023, the only total container traffic is amounted to 26.8 million TEUs (+4.4%), of which 23.5 million TEUs handled by seaports (+3.3%) and 3.3 million TEU from Inland Ports (+12.9%). The largest volume of containerized cargo was handled from the port of Shanghai with 4.2 million TEUs (+2.4%) followed by the ports of Shenzen with 2.8 million TEUs (+6.4%), Ningbo-Zhoushan with 2.6 million TEUs (+9.7%), Qingdao with 2.5 million TEUs (+12.2%), Guangzhou with 2.2 million TEUs (0%) and Tianjin with 1.6 million TEUs (+0.6%).

In the first 11 months of last year, global traffic of cargo in Chinese ports was 15.51 billion tonnes, with an increase of +8.4% on the corresponding period of 2022, of which 9.93 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+7.1%) and 5.58 billion tonnes from ports interiors (+10.7%). Traffic to and from abroad alone has totalled 4.62 billion tonnes (+9.6%), of which 4.15 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+9.7%) and €474.2 million from inland ports (+8.9%). In the segment only total container traffic amounted to 283.8 million TEUs (+4.9%), including 248.6 million TEUs handled by ports (+4.3%) and 35.2 million TEUs from inland ports (+9.6%).