Chinese ports handled 76.7 million TEUs in the first quarter of 2024, a 10% increase over the same period the previous year.
As anticipated, the port of Shanghai handles the majority of TEUs, with 12.45 million handled. Ningbo-Zhoushan and Guangzhou ports follow with 9.14 million and 6.09 million TEUs, respectively.
The ports in Beibu Gulf, Shenzhen, and Ningbo-Zhoushan showed the biggest increases in container volumes, with growth rates of 20.4%, 16.2%, and 11.7%, respectively.
In the first three months of this year, only one of the main Chinese box ports experienced a reduction from the previous year. Specifically, the port of Xiamen registered 2.85 million TEUs in the first quarter of 2024, indicating a 1.8% decline from the same time the previous year.
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