Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport show that October’s cargo throughput in the ports along the Yangtze trunkline increased by 31.3 per cent year-on-year to reach 107.4m tons. The total also represented a 3.1 per cent improvement over the previous month. Foreign trade-related cargo throughput rose by nearly 55 per cent to 12.32m tons, up 0.3 per cent over the previous month. Container throughput reached 720,000 teu, an increase of nearly 23 per cent year-on-year and 5 per cent over the previous month.

For the first 10 months, the total cargo throughput was up 9.7 per cent to 929m tons, while container throughput fell 3.2 per cent to 5.62m teu, compared with the same period last year.