One-fifth of global box trade in 2003 attributed to China: ministry
CONTAINER throughput in China amounted to 48.6 million TEU last year, or nearly one-fifth of the world's total of 260 million TEU.
According to a spokesman for the mainland's Ministry of Communications, China's shipping volume last year was estimated to be 950 million tons, or around one-sixth of the world's total of 6.1 billion tons
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