Container throughput on Yangtze River up 23.3%

According to figures released by the Yangtze River Administration container traffic hit 1 million TEU in October – an increase of 26.4% compared to the same month in 2010. Throughput of general cargo reached 138 million tonnes – up 15.2% in October. For the first 10 months general cargo reached a high of 1.309 billion tonnes – up 16%.