Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration, the Ministry of Transport show that cargo throughput reported in the major Yangtze trunkline ports increased by 10.7 per cent year-on-year to 110m tons in August. Container throughput in the same month jumped by 21.2 per cent to 770,000 TEU.

Between January and August, cargo throughput reached 886m tons, up 24.3 per cent year-on-year and container throughput hit 5.77m TEU, up nearly 30 per cent.