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<\/p>\nFrom January to September 2023, the cargo volume of Chinese ports was 12.540 billion tons, translating to a year-on-year increase of 8.5%, while the container throughput of Chinese ports was 230.7 million TEUs, representing a year-on-year growth of 5.2%.<\/p>\n
The chart below shows the cargo throughput and container throughput data of the twelve major ports in China.<\/p>\n
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As seen in the table, the port of Shanghai has maintained its dominance, being the busiest container port in the country with 36.19 million TEUs.\u00a0The port of Ningbo & Zhoushan is the second busiest box port in China with 27.26 million TEUs and in the third place, we find the port of Shenzhen with 21.72 million TEUs.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the port of Yinkou reported the largest year-on-year container percentage increase in the first nine months of the year with its box throughput growing by 19.6%.<\/p>\n
On the other hand,\u00a0the only percentage decline was registered at one of the busiest ports of the country, Shenzhen, which saw its container volumes drop by 1%.<\/p>\n