Container throughput in Chinese ports continued its stable growth in the first eight months of the year.

State media, citing data from the Ministry of Transport, said in the January-August period, 194.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers were handled at ports in China, up 4.1% year on year.

The growth figure maintained the expansion of the first seven months of the year when the volume of containers handled at China's ports increased by 4.2% year-on-year.

Meanwhile, during the first eight months, cargo throughput at the country's ports neared 10.25 billion tonnes, edging down 0.1% from the same period in 2021.