The Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in August on the 24th. Han Jinghua, deputy director of the Transportation Service Department of the Ministry of Transport, said at the meeting that the transportation economy continued to recover in July, and all major indicators achieved positive growth. The scale of transportation investment continues to remain high, the growth rate of freight volume has picked up, and the flow of people has continued to increase driven by the summer vacation. The specific situation is as follows:
Shipping. In July, the commercial freight volume was 4.74 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%, and an increase of 2.8 percentage points compared with June. In terms of different methods, railways increased by 0.1% year-on-year, roads increased by 8% year-on-year, waterways increased by 6.9% year-on-year, and civil aviation increased by 11.6% year-on-year.
In terms of passenger transport. In July, the operating passenger volume was 910 million, a year-on-year increase of 47%. The city passenger traffic volume across the country was 8.21 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%. Completed 2.07 billion passenger trips on highways with 9 seats and below, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%.
In terms of cargo throughput at the port. In July, the throughput of port cargo was 1.43 billion tons, an increase of 6.6% year-on-year, of which the throughput of domestic and foreign trade increased by 5.8% and 8.5% year-on-year respectively. The container throughput was 27.05 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 2.6%.
In terms of transportation fixed asset investment. In July, 348.6 billion yuan was invested in transportation fixed assets, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%. In terms of methods, the investment in railways was 66.4 billion yuan, an increase of 8% year-on-year; the investment in highways and waterways was 271.6 billion yuan, an increase of 4.8% year-on-year; the investment in civil aviation was 10.5 billion yuan, an increase of 2.5% year-on-year.