In October 2020, the port handling capacity in China's Pearl River Delta reached 71 million metric tons. Together with the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal as China's three main inland waterways, the Pearl River supports the manufacturing industry and cross border trading in southern China.
Volume of port handling capacity in the Pearl River system in China from October 2019 to October 2020
(in million metric tons)
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Ministry of Transport of China. (November 10, 2020). Volume of port handling capacity in the Pearl River system in China from October 2019 to October 2020 (in million metric tons) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 16, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039466/china-pearl-river-waterway-port-throughput-volume-quarterly/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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