A staff member unloads a cargo container from a China-Europe freighttrain at Liege LogisticsIntermodal in Liege, Belgium, Aug. 31, 2021. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) – China's freight transport sector continued to maintain steady recovery and growth amid the COVID-19 epidemic, with railway cargo volume amounted to 11.028 million tonnes on May 8, up 0.29 percent from a day earlier, and expressway cargo traffic dropping 12.01 percent to 6.4247 million units on the same day, official data showed on May 9.
The cargo throughput at China's major ports stood at 32.949 million tonnes on May 8, up 19.5 percent from the previous day. China's container handling volume surged by 24.4 percent to 750,000 TUEs, official data said.
Meanwhile, due the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, on May 8, China's civil aviation cargo flights fell by 4.9 percent from a day earlier to 642 flights, and China's express delivery volume reached 285 million pieces, down 7.2 percent from the previous day.
China's Ministry of Transportation vows to put more efforts to ensure the orderly prevention and control of the epidemic, while providing a solid guarantee for transportation and logistics in the areas hit hard by the epidemic, and strengthen the implementation of 10 related measures to facilitate smooth logistics. (Edited by Jiang Feifan with Xinhua Silk Road, 346129473@qq.com)
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