Shanghai port’s cargo throughput increased 19 per cent year-on-year to 30.7m tons in November 2009, its first monthly double-digit growth rate of the year. However, the total was down on the October 2009 throughput level of 31.2m tons.

Container throughput totalled 2.2m TEU, down 3.3 per cent from the same month last year. This was the lowest monthly fall of 2009, according to Shanghai International Port Group, the city’s port operator. Shanghai handled a total of 22.6m TEU in the first 11 months of 2009, a decline of 12.3 per cent year-on-year.