Container traffic at Chinese ports rises

Container traffic at the ports in northern Hebei of China rose 22.8 percent on a year-on-year basis to 142,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) in the first 2 months 2013.

The collective cargo throughput increased 10.9 percent to 134.83 million tonne (mn t). While the port of Qinhuangdao cargo volume fell 3.7 percent to 42.17 mn t. Port of Tangshan cargo volume increased 18 percent to 67.71 mn t. Port of Huanghua cargo increased 2 2.3 percent to 24.95 mn t.