While the growth trend continues to ease, the volume of cargo traffic in Chinese ports continues to record new record. Last August, the ports of the Asian nation handled a total of 1.51 billion tons of loads, a volume that represents an increase of +2.0% compared to August of 2023 as well as the new record for this month of the year and the second largest monthly volume ever moved being only lower than the all-time record of 1.52 million tons totaled in May 2024. The new traffic peak relating to the month of August is also the same for goods only handled in August 2024 by seaports, which amounted to 962.3 million tons (+2.6%), both for goods handled from Chinese inland ports, which amounted to 552.2 million tons (+1,0%).

Last August the new record was also set for this month of the volume of traffic to and from abroad handled by Chinese ports, which was globally equal to 470.5 million tonnes (+5.9%), of which 421.2 million tonnes tons handled by seaports (+5.1%), a volume that is a new record for the month of August, and 49.3 million tons handled by inland ports (+13.0%), a volume that represents the new absolute record having surpassed the previous one An all-time record last May.

Domestic traffic alone totaled in August 2024 marked new records for this month both in terms of volume total, amounting to 1.04 billion tonnes (+0.3%), both for the volumes handled by seaports and inland ports, Results of 541.1 million tonnes (+0.6%) and 502.9 million tonnes (0%).

In August 2024, Chinese ports also achieved the new historical record of monthly container traffic having been equal to almost 29.6 million TEUs (+7.7%), an all-time record that is this is also true for the containerized volumes that have passed through the seaports, which amounted to 26.0 million TEUs (+8.5%), while container traffic in inland ports, amounting to almost 3.6 million TEUs (+2.3%), is the highest ever marked in August and the second highest in absolute after that of last May.

In the first eight months of this year, Chinese ports handled 11.51 billion tons of goods globally, with an increase of +3.7% over the corresponding period of 2023, of which 7.45 billion tonnes are made by seaports (+3.8%) and 4.06 billion tons from inland ports (+3.5%). The total traffic with foreign countries amounted to 3.61 billion tonnes (+7.9%), of which 3.24 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+8.0%) and 365.1 million tons from inland ports (+7.2%). The traffic of the containers amounted to a total of 220.5 million TEUs (+8.2%), of which 193.8 million TEUs handled by seaports (+8.5%) and 26.7 million TEUs from inland ports (+6.1%).