China's transport sector maintained stable growth in the first three quarters of this year, with key indicators, including freight volume, port throughput, and cross-regional passenger flow, all rising year on year, data from the Ministry of Transport (MOT) showed Monday.
The country handled 43.04 billion tonnes of commercial freight in the first three quarters, up 2.3 percent year on year, with September alone seeing a 1.3 percent year-on-year increase, according to the MOT.
A batch of new shipping routes serving automobile exports, ASEAN, and Europe have been launched this year, boosting port operations.
Total port cargo throughput in the first nine months reached 13.64 billion tonnes, up 0.7 percent year on year, with foreign trade throughput rising 2.9 percent. Container throughput hit 280 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs), up 4.5 percent.
Throughout this year, various holidays have consistently fueled demand for travel. To cater to the diverse and personalized travel needs of tourists, various localities have launched specialized tourist rail routes, and passenger volume on international civil aviation routes also increased by 4.7 percent year on year.
Data showed that in the first three quarters, China reported 51.22 billion cross-regional passenger trips, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 percent, with September alone rising by 5.1 percent, compared to the same period last year.
"The transport economy continued to advance steadily in the first three quarters, with main indicators maintaining growth and transformation and upgrading progressing steadily, reflecting China's economic resilience and vitality," said Chen Jing, chief engineer of the MOT's Transport Planning and Research Institute.
China's transport sector sees stable performance in Q1-Q3
