FROM January to June, ports in southeast China's Fujian province lifted 4.87 million TEU, up 10.3 per cent year on year, Xinhua reports.

Xiamen, the province's largest port, handled 3.21 million TEU, up 11.8 per cent. Fuzhou port lifted 851,200 TEU, up 8.1 per cent.

In the same period, the collective throughput tonnage of these ports increased 8.3 per cent to 192 million tonnes. Xiamen recorded 79.65 million tonnes, up 4.5 per cent. Fuzhou's climbed 11.1 per cent to 52.1 million tonnes.