EASTERN China's port of Lianyungang posted a throughput of 78.9 million tonnes of overall cargo from January to May this year, 16.04 per cent more than in the same period in the preceding year, Xinhua reports.
In this period, the port's sea-rail containers increased 8.6 per cent to 133,000 TEU. Outbound volume climbed 14 per cent to 74,000 TEU. Inbound boxes volume went up 2.6 per cent to 59,000 TEU. Transshipment container numbers slid 34.8 per cent to 32,000 TEU.
In May, the port's sea-rail intermodal boxes jumped 23.5 per cent up to 29,000. The number of outbound boxes grew 19.7 per cent to 16,000 TEU. Inbound volume rose 28.2 per cent to 13,000 TEU. Transshipment container throughput shrank 28.3 per cent to 7,340 TEU.
Lianyungang is the eastern start of the New Eurasian Land Bridge and aims to be the Rotterdam of the east. Rotterdam is the western terminus of the New Eurasian Land Bridge.