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China's commercial freight volume hits 4.9 billion metric tons in July_我的网站

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一 | (ECNS) — China's commercial freight volume reached 4.9 billion metric tons in July, up 0.5% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Transport. Of the total, road freight amounted to 3.76 billion metric tons, up 1.6% year on year, while waterway freight stood at 710 million metric tons, down 2.2%. China’s port cargo throughput totaled 1.49 billion metric tons in July, down 2.9% from a year earlier. Domestic and foreign trade throughput fell 4% and 0.5%, respectively. Container throughput reached 29.9 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs), up 0.8%. Zhoukou Port operates 43 container shipping routes, including 29 domestic routes and 14 international routes serving 14 countries and regions. Cross-regional passenger mobility reached 5.62 billion person-trips in July, down 1.4% year on year. Road passenger mobility registered 5.07 billion person-trips, a 1.5% decline, while waterway passenger transport recorded 23.66 million person-trips, down 15.3%. Urban passenger transport volume came to 8.91 billion person-trips in July, up 2.9% year on year. Urban rail transit accounted for 2.94 billion person-trips, up 0.7%, while taxi services recorded 3.14 billion person-trips, up 9.8%. Bus and trolleybus services recorded 2.82 billion person-trips, down 1.8%, while urban ferry transport stood at 6.23 million person-trips, down 8.9%. For the January-July period, fixed-asset investment in transportation totaled 1.8152 trillion yuan ($251.4 billion). Investment in road construction totaled 1.2011 trillion yuan, while waterway investment reached 125.5 billion yuan. (By Helen Mo & intern Xu Wenda) 。