Last month, cargo traffic at Chinese ports was amounted to 1.52 billion tonnes of cargo, with a increase of +3.8% over May 2023, of which 971.5 million tonnes handled by seaports (+3.5%) and 551.1 million tonnes from inland ports (+10.3%). The only traffic with foreign sales totalled 470.6 million tonnes (+8.1%), of which 422.8 million tonnes passed through through seaports (+8.6%) and €47.8 million tonnes through inland ports (+1.6%).

In May 2024, containerized traffic handled by ports totalled 28.8 million TEUs (+8.1%), including 25.2 million TEUs in seaports (+8.2%) and over 3.6 million TEUs in inland ports (+8.0%).

Beijing's Ministry of Transport has announced that in the first In the past five months of this year, total freight traffic has totalled 7.07 billion tonnes, an increase of +4.9% over the corresponding period of 2023, of which €4.60 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+4.6%) and 2.47 billion inland ports (+5.4%). The total traffic to and from Exports amounted to 2.22 billion tonnes of goods (+8.9%), of which 2.00 billion tonnes in seaports (+9.2%) and 222.9 million tonnes in inland ports (+6.4%). In the container segment, global traffic was equal to 132.8 million TEUs (+8.8%), of which 116.5 million TEUs in ports maritime (+8.7%) and 16.3 million TEUs in inland ports (+9.4%).