Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport show that container throughput across the Yangtze trunk line reached 1m TEU in October, up 26.4 per cent over the same period last year. Throughput of general cargo went up by 15.2 per cent to 138m tons.

In the first 10 months, container throughput increased by 23.2 per cent to 9.14m TEU while throughput of general cargo reached 1.309bn tons, up 16 per cent year-on-year.