In the first half of the year, container throughput increased by 3% year -on -year

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28 (Reporter Ye Haoming) The Ministry of Transport released data on the 28th. In the first half of the year, the container throughput of my country's containers completed the 140 million bids, an increase of 3%year -on -year; Increasing 6.1%.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation, Shu Chi, said at a routine press conference held by the Ministry of Transport on the day that in the first half of the year, my country's transportation fixed asset investment exceeded 1.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.7%year -on -year. The increase of 9.7%, the investment in the waterway was 73.9 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7%year -on -year. The investment continued to operate high.

Statistics show that in the first half of the year, my country completed 24.27 billion tons, a year -on -year decrease of 2.2%. Among them, the decline in June further narrowed and basically returned to the same period last year. Highway freight volume continued to recover, completing 17.7 billion tons; waterway completed 4.1 billion tons, an increase of 4.5%year -on -year.

According to Shu Chi, affected by the reduction of the imports of large materials such as coal, crude oil, and iron ore, the total amount of cargo throughout the port in the first half of the year was 7.58 billion tons, a decrease of 0.8%year -on -year. 3.7%. At the same time, due to the impact of a new round of epidemic, my country's business passenger volume was 2.76 billion people in the first half of the year, a year -on -year decrease of 37.2%; 36 central cities across the country completed the passenger volume of 20.67 billion people, a year -on -year decrease of 22.1%; 100 million people, a year -on -year decrease of 23.2%.

"In general, in the first half of the year, with the joint efforts of all aspects, with the implementation of various measures such as logistics insurance, the main indicators of transportation gradually recovered after a brief fluctuations in April, especially the freight volume was basically basically the basis of freight volume. With the same period of the same period last year, the volume of foreign trade containers in ports has remained increased, and traffic investment and express delivery business volume generally returned to normal development track. "Shu Chi said.

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