In the first half of this year, Chinese ports handled a total of 8.56 billion tons of goods, with an increase of +4.6% over the first half of 2023, of which 5.56 billion tons handled by seaports (+4.4%) and 3.00 billion tons from inland ports (+4.9%). In the first six months of 2024 the international freight traffic alone is amounted to 2.69 billion tonnes (+8.8%), of which 2.42 billion tonnes billion tonnes passed through seaports (+9.0%) and 269 million tons through inland ports (+6.5%).

In the third quarter of 2024 alone, the total traffic of the was 4.47 billion tonnes, with a an increase of +3.2% over the April-June period of last year, of which 2.87 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+3.1%) and 1.60 billion tons from inland ports (+3.3%). The total traffic to and from abroad stood at 1.38 billion tons (+8.1%), including 1.24 billion handled from seaports (+8.4%) and €139.0 million from inland ports (+5,8%).

In the first half of 2024, containerized traffic in the Chinese ports amounted to 161.8 million TEUs (+8.5%), of which 142.1 million TEUs handled in seaports (+8.6%) and 19.7 million TEUs in inland ports (+7.7%).

In the period April-June of this year, the traffic of Container totalled 85.1 million TEUs (+7.1%), including 74.6 million TEUs million TEUs in seaports (+7.5%) and 10.5 million TEUs in the Inland Ports (+4.5%).

In June 2024 alone, Chinese seaports handled 960.3 million tons of goods, up by +3.2% compared to June last year, of which 418.4 million tons of goods with foreign countries (+8.3%). Last month traffic containerized in seaports was equal to 25.6 million TEUs (+8.0%).