Figures released by the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport showed that cargo throughput via the major ports along the Yangtze trunkline fell by 7.9 per cent in November compared with the previous month to 95m tons. However, this represented an increase of 22 per cent on the same month last year. Also in November, container throughput rose by 2.9 per cent to 580,000 teu compared with October, an increase of 1.9 per cent year-on-year.

For the January-November period, total throughput was up 10.3 per cent year-on-year to 1.02bn tons, while container throughput fell by 5.2 per cent to just over 6m teu.