In the first quarter of this year, the traffic of goods in the China's seaports and inland amounted to $4.09 billion tonnes, with an increase of +6.1% on the corresponding period of 2023. Beijing's Ministry of Transport announced whereas traffic to and from abroad alone amounted to 1.31 billion tonnes, with an increase of +9.5% on the first three months of last year.

In the container sector, traffic was equal to over 76.7 million TEUs (+10.0%), of which more than 12.4 million TEUs (+8.6%) handled by the port of Shanghai, which is the world's leading container port by volume of traffic.

In the month of March of this year alone, the global traffic of stood at 1.57 billion tonnes, with a up +2.7% on March 2023, including 450.9 million tonnes of foreign traffic (+7.6%). Container traffic alone is amounted to 27.2 million TEUs (+6.4%).