Chinese ports' container throughput maintains expansion in January-October

BEIJING -- Container throughput at China's ports continued stable growth from January to October 2022, data from the Ministry of Transport shows.

During this period, some 240 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers were handled at the country's ports, up 4 percent year-on-year, according to the ministry.

The year-on-year growth rate is the same as that recorded in the first three quarters of this year.

Cargo throughput at China's ports edged up 0.5 percent year-on-year to 12.93 billion tonnes. This growth rate is higher than the 0.1 percent growth rate in the first three quarters of 2022.