Last September, the traffic of goods in Chinese ports amounted to 1.46 billion tonnes of goods, with a Progression of +1.3% over the same month of 2023, with only ports that handled 912.6 million tons of cargoes (+0.5%) and inland ports 544.1 million tons (+2,6%). The only total traffic to and from abroad is 444.8 million tonnes (+4.9%), of which 398.3 million tonnes of tonnes handled by seaports (+5.0%) and 46.5 million tonnes of tonnes from inland ports (+4.4%), while traffic alone The national total stood at 1.01 billion tons (-0.2%), with 514.3 million tonnes passed through the maritime ports (-2.7%) and 497.7 million tons through inland ports (+2.4%).

In September 2024, global container traffic handled from Chinese ports amounted to 28.0 million TEUs (+3.9%), of which 24.7 million TEUs in seaports (+4.5%) and almost 3.4 million TEUs million TEUs in inland ports (0%).

In the third quarter of this year, the downward trend in Volumes of cargo traffic handled by Chinese ports in place from the second half of 2023 there has been further accentuated since a total of 4.41 billion were moved of tons of cargo, with a slight increase of +1.3% over the period July-September 2023, of which 2.80 billion tonnes of goods in seaports (+1.7%) and 1.61 billion tonnes in the inland ports (+0.6%). The only global traffic to and from abroad is 1.36 billion tonnes (+5.3%), including 1.22 billion tonnes billion tonnes handled by seaports (+5.0%) and 142 billion tonnes million tons from inland ports (+7.7%). Traffic recorded a decrease of -0.4% having been equal to 3.04 billion tonnes, of which 1.58 billion tonnes passed through seaports (-0.7%) and 1.46 billion tons through inland ports (0%).

In the third quarter of 2024, the total traffic of the containers amounted to 86.7 million TEUs (+6.4%), of which 76.3 million TEUs in seaports (+7.1%) and 10.4 million of TEUs in inland ports (+1.4%).

In the first nine months of this year, the total traffic of the cargo in Chinese ports was 12.97 billion tons, with an increase of +3.4% over the same period of 2023, including 8.37 billion tonnes in seaports (+3.5%) and 4.60 billion tons in inland ports (+3.4%). The total figure for goods to and from abroad alone was 4.05 billion tonnes (+7.6%), including 3.64 billion tonnes tonnes in seaports (+7.7%) and 412 million tonnes in inland ports (+6.9%), while that of domestic goods only was 8.92 billion tons (+1.7%), of which 4.72 billion tonnes in seaports (+0.4%) and 4.19 billion tonnes of tons in inland ports (+3.1%).

In the period January-September of 2024, Chinese ports container traffic of 248.5 million TEUs handled (+7.7%), of which 218.5 million TEUs in seaports (+8.1%) and 30.1 million TEUs in Inland Ports (+5.4%).