Shanghai International Port Group, China's largest port operator, said it experienced a profits fall of 13.7 per cent year-on-year to Rmb4.68bn in 2011. The company did not explain the reason for the downturn even though revenues climbed 13.3 per cent to Rmb21.64bn.

Shanghai’s general cargo throughput rose about 13 per cent to 484m tonnes tons last year and its container throughput grew more than 9 per cent to 31.74m TEU.