Last month, Chinese ports handled 1.54 billion tons of goods, a volume that represents a new record for the month of April and a slight increase of +0.6% over April 2025, of which 989.8 million tonnes handled by seaports set a new record for April (+2.6%) and 552.3 million tons from inland ports (-2.9%). The only traffic with foreign countries, after 42 months of growth, with a total of 460.7 million tonnes recorded a slight decrease of -0.4% due to by the contraction of international traffic handled by the Inland Port which amounted to 45.2 million tons (-9.0%), while import-export traffic handled by ports grew by +0.6% to 415.5 million tons setting a new record for the month of April.

In April 2026, the largest overall traffic volume is Ningbo-Zhoushan Port handled with 117.0 million tons (-2.6%) followed by the ports of Tangshan with 73.2 million tons tons (+7.5%), Shanghai with 71.6 million tons (+6.3%), Qingdao with 64.0 million tons (+3.5%), Guangzhou with 58.2 million tons million tonnes (+0.6%), Rizhao with 54.4 million tonnes (+2.5%) and Tianjin with 50.7 million tons (-0.2%).

With regard to international traffic alone, last month the greater volume of this traffic was always handled from the port of Ningbo-Zhousan with 50.4 million tons (-8.3%) followed by the ports of Qingdao with 48.2 million tons (+7.7%), Shanghai with 41.3 million tons (+5.4%), Rizhao with 30.6 million tons million tonnes (-2.8%), Tianjin with 30.3 million tonnes tonnes (-1.9%), Tangshan with 29.9 million tonnes (+8.6%) and Shenzhen with 23.5 million tons (+2.6%).

As for global container traffic, last month the ports Chinese handled a record volume for the month of April equal to 30.7 million TEUs (+5.1%), of which 26.9 million TEUs in the Seaports that set new records for this month (+4.8%) and 3.8 million TEUs in Inland Ports (+6.7%). The most large volume of containerized traffic was handled by the port of Shanghai with over 4.8 million TEUs (+7.8%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 3.7 million TEUs (+5.7%), Shenzhen with 3.1 million TEUs (+4.4%), Qingdao with 2.9 million TEUs million TEUs (+6.2%), Guangzhou with 2.4 million TEUs (-0.4%) and Tianjin with 2.1 million TEUs (+6.5%).

In the first four months of 2026, total freight traffic in Chinese ports was 5.93 billion tons, with an increase of +3.1% over the first four months of last year, of which 3.86 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+6.0%) and almost 2.1 billion from inland ports (+0.8%). The only foreign traffic stood at a total of 1.89 billion tonnes (+5.5%), of which 1.70 billion tonnes passed through seaports (+6.0%) and 188.7 million through inland ports (+1.9%). In the first four months of This year the container traffic alone was equal globally to 120.3 million TEUs (+7.2%), of which 106.1 million TEUs TEUs handled by seaports (+7.4%) and 14.3 million TEUs from inland ports (+6.1%).