MINISTRY of Transport spokesman He Jianzhong revealed that China's overall transport volume has maintained steady growth in the first two months of the year
China's January, February transport volume holds steady growth rate
MINISTRY of Transport spokesman He Jianzhong revealed that China's overall transport volume has maintained steady growth in the first two months of the year while slowing slightly year on year, reports Xinhua.
China's highway transport passenger volume increased 5.7 per cent year on year to 6.31 billion in this period. Waterway passenger volume increased 1.3 per cent to 36.57 million, six per cent lower than last year.
China road freight volume increased 10.9 per cent to 5.02 billion tonnes with the growth falling 2.3 per cent. The highway cargo turnover increased 12.4 per cent to 907.6 billion tonnes per kilometre with the growth falling two per cent.
Waterway cargo volume increased 9.8 per cent to 710 million tonnes. The turnover increased 6.2 per cent to 1,304.72 billion tonnes per kilometre. The growth was 10.9 per cent lower than that in the same period last year.
Ports in China posted an 11.2 per cent increase in cargo throughput to 1.61 billion tonnes. The growth was 4.1 per cent higher year on year. Foreign trade cargo throughput grew 10.5 per cent to 530 million tonnes, and the growth was 1.3 per cent lower than last year. Domestic trade cargo throughput grew 11.6 per cent to 1.08 billion tonnes. The growth was 6.6 percentage points more than last year.
