The freight carried on the national road network in November totalled 1.48bn tons and 107.69bn ton kilometres, up 5.5 per cent and 9 per cent respectively compared with the same period last year. The growth in Sichuan, Guangdong, Hubei and Henan provinces accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the increase in road cargo volumes.
The cargo carried on the national waterway network in November totalled 240m tons and 493.46bn ton kilometres, up three per cent and down 14 per cent over the same period last year, representing a decreasing of 11.3 and 39.2 percentage points.
November statistics also revealed that 75.2 per cent of the total national of cargo volumes were moved on the road while the waterway accounted for 12.2 per cent of the national total; however, taking into consideration the distance travelled, road transport accounted for less than 14 per cent of the national total while the waterway network represented 62.2 per cent.
The proportion of cargo moved by rail decreased by 1.1 per cent in absolute volume terms but up nearly one per cent in ton kilometre terms, whereas both categories for air cargo remained the same.