Despite the global shipping slump, Huanghua port in Hebei province has reported steady annual increases in cargo and container volumes.

According to the latest data from the port, it handled a total of 130 million metric tons of cargo in 2012, an increase of 12.4 percent on 2011.

Coal throughput jumped by 5 percent from a year earlier to 105 million tons, accounting for 81 percent of its total cargo flow.