China’s leading airlines continued to show improvements in the amount of cargo carried, reported Shanghai Daily. China Eastern Airlines, the country’s second-largest airline, carried 119,560 tons of cargo in August, a year-on-year increase of 49 per cent.

Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines, the country’s largest carrier by fleet, handled 987,300 tons of cargo in August, up 30 per cent from a year earlier. Air China, the third largest carrier, carried 93,700 tons of cargo, up 12.2 per cent.