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The volume of shipments handled at Chinese ports during the first quarter (January-March) of 2010 was 1.81 billion tons, an increase of 22.2 percent from a year earlier, according to a report on traffic, transport and economic situations complied recently by the Ministry of Transport.
Oceangoing cargoes accounted for 600 million tons, growing 30.2 percent year on year and 2.9 percent from the fourth quarter (October-December) of 2009.
Containers amounted to 31.87 million TEUs, up 22.1 percent from the corresponding period of 2009 and 8.6 percent from the previous quarter.
Freight transported overland in China during the January-March quarter totaled 5.4 billion tons, or 957.5 billion ton-kilometers, which went up 15.9 percent and 18.8 percent from the first quarter of 2009, respectively.
The figures returned to what they were in the first quarter of 2008, when the world was not yet in the ongoing economic slump.
The combined volume of cargoes and postal mail carried by private airlines during the three months in question came to 1.271 million tons, representing a notable improvement of 46.5 percent year on year, which was 60 percent greater than a year earlier.
