SIPG Jiujiang port recorded a September throughput of 10,034 teu, its largest-ever single month total. For the first nine months of 2009, container throughput totalled 65,000 teu, up 108 per cent year-on-year.

The worldwide economic downturn did affect the port at the beginning of this year. However, the senior management’s decision to tie up with Nanchang port, a much smaller port on the Yangtze tributary the Ganjiang, has increased the number of regular calls from 20 a week to a dozen a day. As a result, Jiujiang’s container traffic has increased significantly.