The Economic Crisis is producing more and more obvious influence on the export trade of China. As per the statistics of Chinese Customs, the total value of export trade of China in February is USD 64.895billion, dropped by 25.7%, which shows the export trade is under a severe strain. The container throughput volume has been affected decreasing for the last 3 months, and there is no sign shows this fall has touched the bottom.
It is pointed by the analysts that, the negative increasement of throughput volume has been gradually spreading from the South ports to East ports and then the Bohai Bay ports, since the second half of last year, on the other hand, the risks are also releasing as the expand of this negative increasement. Looking from the view of freight type, so far the volume of the coal has reached the bottom and now is rising slowly; but major freight types such as the container transportation and the ironstone transportation, are still on the downgrade. The worst time for the ports industry has not arrived yet.