Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan called on his officials attending a meeting of the city’s water transport development taskforce on 11 August to speed up investment in the city’s waterways so as to turn the city into a true regional hub with efficient road, rail and air cargo networks. By end of the 12th five-year plan period (2011-15), he said, the city will need an annual handling capacity of general cargo of 180m tons and a container capacity of 7m TEU.