Transportation: Port sets record
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-06 15:19 Shanghai International Port
(Group) Co, operator of China's busiest container harbour, handled a record
number of cargo boxes in August because of the nation's rising
trade.
Container volume rose 21 per cent to 1.95 million 20-foot boxes
last month, the State-owned company said on its website. It handled 14 million
boxes between January and August, 19 per cent more than a year
earlier.
China exported 23 per cent more clothing, electronics and other
goods in the first seven months of the year, increasing shipments through
Shanghai and the country's other sea ports. About 90 per cent of global trade is
carried by sea.
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