Aerial photo taken on Aug 27, 2022 shows the Qinzhou port near the estuary of Pinglu Canal, in Qinzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING - China's cargo and container throughput at ports logged robust expansion during the first 11 months of 2023, official data showed.

The country's cargo throughput at ports totaled 15.51 billion tonnes during the period, up 8.4 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Specifically, foreign trade cargo throughput at the ports rose 9.6 percent over one year earlier, according to the ministry.

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In the same period, China's ports handled 280 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers, climbing 4.9 percent year-on-year.