In October 2024, Chinese ports set a new record traffic history of the goods handled, a volume that is 1.53 billion tonnes, an increase of +3.0% compared to October last year. The new peak was marked thanks to the historical record of cargoes handled by ports domestic households which amounted to 583.5 million tons (+2.9%). Seaports, with 951.4 million tons, recorded a new record for the month of October and a growth of +3.0% compared to October 2023 when The previous record for this month had been set.

In addition, the new all-time record was achieved thanks to a volume of national traffic never reached in priority from Chinese ports which last October was equal to 1.82 billion tonnes of goods (+1.9%), with a new historical record of national goods handled by the Inland Ports that amounted to 532.5 million tonnes (+2.3%) and with a New record for the month of October for domestic goods handled by seaports, amounting to 550.0 million tons (+1.6%).

Last October, the traffic to and from abroad handled by the Chinese ports amounted to 452.4 million tons (+5.5%), a volume that represents a new record for the month of October, a record that is also such for goods alone international ports that have been equal to 401.4 million tons (+4.9%), while inland ports marked a new all-time record for international goods handled with a total of 51.0 million tons (+10.3%).

In October 2024, container traffic handled by ports amounted to over 27.9 million TEUs (+6.1%), volume which is the highest ever achieved in the month of October. Containerized traffic alone in seaports is amounted to over 24.4 million TEUs (+6.2%), a quantity that represents the new record for this month of the year, while the Only container traffic handled by Inland Ports New all-time record of almost 3.5 million TEUs recorded (+5,1%).

In the first ten months of 2024, Chinese ports handled 14.51 billion tonnes of goods, with a an increase of +3.4% over the same period of last year, of which 9.31 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+3.4%) and 5.19 billion tons from inland ports (+3.3%). The foreign traffic alone amounted to 4.51 billion tonnes (+7.4%), including 4.04 billion tonnes passed through seaports (+7.4%) and 462.7 million tons through inland ports (+7.3%).

In the period January-October of this year, the traffic of the was 276.5 million TEUs (+7.6%), of which 242.9 million TEUs handled by seaports (+7.9%) and 33.6 million TEUs million TEUs from inland ports (+5.4%).