Last month, Chinese ports handled 1.58 billion tons of goods, with an increase of +4.7% over August 2024, of which 1.00 billion tons handled by ports maritime (+4.5%) and 580.0 million tonnes from inland ports (+5,0%). Traffic to and from abroad alone amounted to overall to 493.4 million tons (+4.9%), of which 440.4 million tons million tons of cargo passed through ports maritime (+4.6%) and 53.0 million tons of cargo through inland ports (+7.5%).

Among the main Chinese ports by total traffic volume of goods, in August 2025 Ningbo-Zhoushan port has handled 126.5 million tons (+6.9%), the port of Shanghai 74.1 million tons (+8.6%), the port of Tangshan 73.4 million tons (+4.0%), the port of Qingdao 63.9 million of tons (+4.2%), the port of Guangzhou 57.2 million tons (+2.4%), the port of Rizhao 53.9 million tons (+2.3%) and the port of Tianjin 52.0 million tons (+1.1%).

Last month, the only container traffic handled by the Chinese ports amounted to 31.5 million TEUs (+6.5%), Including more than 27.7 million TEUs handled by seaports (+6.8%) and more than 3.7 million TEUs from inland ports (+4,2%). Among the main container ports, the port of call of Shanghai handled 5.0 million TEUs (+11.3%), the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan 4.0 million TEUs (+11.7%), Shenzhen Port 3.2 million TEUs (+1.9%), the port of Qingdao 2.8 million TEUs (+4.9%), the port of Guangzhou 2.4 million TEUs (+3.4%), the port of Tianjin 2.2 million TEUs (+3.3%) and the port of Xiamen 1.1 million TEUs (-3.6%).

In the first eight months of 2025, Chinese ports handled a of 12.0 billion tonnes of goods, with an increase in by +4.4% on the same period last year, of which 7.7 billion tonnes in seaports (+3.1%) and 4.3 billion tonnes in tons in inland ports (+6.9%). The total traffic alone foreign sales amounted to 3.7 billion tonnes (+2.7%), of which over 3.3 million tonnes were handled by seaports (+2.5%) and 381.0 million tonnes from ports interior (+4.3%).

The container sector closed the January-August period this year with traffic of 234.4 million TEUs (+6.3%), of which 206.5 million TEUs handled by seaports (+6.5%) and almost 28.0 million TEUs from Inland Ports (+4.6%).