China's container throughput rose 11.2% year on year to 26.36 million twenty-foot equivalent units in July.

Data from the Ministry of Transport reported by state media showed the growth rate was up 4.7 percentage points compared to the June performance.

Xinhua said in July, China's container throughput at ports increased 5.7% year on year to 1.34 billion tonnes, reversing a 2.3% decline also recorded in June.

Meanwhile, according to Su Jie, an official at the Ministry of Transport, China's freight volumes also recovered in July.

"China's July freight volume basically recovered to the level of the same period last year, and the decline of passenger volume narrowed due to the summer travel rush," Su Jie said.

China's freight volume went down 0.8% year on year to 4.42 billion tonnes in July, compared with a 1.9% drop in June.

Earlier, the Chinese Ministry of Transport recorded that ports in China recorded container throughput growth in the first half of the year despite the impact of Covid-19 restrictions in some major port areas in the country, like Shanghai.

From the January-June period, the container handling volume at China's ports rose 3% year-on-year to 140 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).

Cargo throughput at the country's ports reached 7.58 billion tonnes in the same period, down 0.8% year-over-year.