The amount of cargo passing through the Three Gorges Dam shiplocks totalled an all-time monthly high of 10.33m tonnes in April. This was 1.88m tonnes more than in the same month last year, reported Xinhua.

From January to April, overall cargo volume via the locks increased 6.25 per cent year-on-year to 32.41m tonnes. During this period, a total of 14,078 vessels transited the Three Gorges Dam.