On April 18, Li Tianbi, Director of Safety of the Ministry of Transport and Director of the Water Transport Bureau, introduced at the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council that in the first quarter of this year, due to the epidemic, the loss of international trade reached US $ 320 billion, leading to further shrinking of international shipping demand ,dramatically drop. In the first quarter, the port cargo throughput and container throughput in China fell by 4.6% and 8.5%, respectively.
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]