Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport show that general cargo throughput on the Yangtze trunk line increased by 30 per cent year-on-year in March 2010 to 110m tons. Out of this total, foreign trade-related throughput grew by 11 per cent. Container throughput increased 0.7 per cent to 690,000 TEU.

For the first three months of the year, general cargo throughput went up by 34 per cent compared with the same period last year, while container throughput decreased by 5 per cent to 1.88m TEU.