Container throughput in Chinese ports grew by 4.1% in the first 8 months of 2022

Port of Shanghai, China

In the first eight months of the year, China's ports transported 10.24 billion tons, down 0.1% year-on-year.

The chart below shows cargo volume in tons and container throughput data for 12 major ports in China, according to China's Ministry of Transport.

Container throughput in the first 8 months of China's main ports (Source: Ministry of Transport of China)

We see that the ports of Shanghai, Ningbo & Zhoushan and Shenzhen lead the race in terms of container throughput with 31 million TEU, 24 million TEU and 19 million TEU respectively, while Dalian, Yinkou and Lianyungang were in the last positions with 2.7 million TEU, 2.9 million TEU and 3.4 million TEU, respectively.

Yinkou is the only port on the list to report a year-on-year decrease in container throughput (-19.3%) in the January-August 2022 period. On the other hand, Beibu Gulf, Dalian and Ningbo & Zhoushan achieved the largest growth rate of 20.1%, 13.7% and 10.9%, respectively.

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Source: Phaata.com (According to ContainerNews)

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