The reporter learned from the Ministry of transport on the 2nd that in May, the national key monitoring ports completed a container throughput of 23.08 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 4.2% and a daily average month on month increase of 4.4%. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of transport released a set of data on the same day: in May, the national key monitoring ports completed a cargo throughput of 1.03 billion tons, with a daily average growth of 3.2% month on month. 11 international hub seaports completed a container throughput of 17.76 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 5.2% and a daily average month on month increase of 3.9%. Shanghai Port completed a container throughput of 3.4096 million TEUs, with an average daily growth of 7% month on month, and showed a trend of accelerating recovery. The cargo passing through the Three Gorges Project and the Xijiang Changzhou hub ship lock totaled 31.308 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.2% and a daily average month on month increase of 8.3%. "China's container port ships' average time in port and berthing time are 1.98 days and 1.04 days respectively, which is significantly better than the average level of 3.3 days and 2.4 days of major foreign container ports." The official said that the Ministry of transport, focusing on the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Beijing, Tianjin and other regions, has effectively coordinated the prevention and control of water transport epidemics, smooth traffic and safe production from five aspects. First, ensure the efficient operation of the port. Ensure the all-weather operation of key ports, timely coordinate and solve the problems such as the poor collection and distribution of roads in Shanghai port in the early stage, and vigorously promote the "road to water" and "road to rail". Second, keep the waterway unblocked. To guide all localities to effectively carry out epidemic prevention and control, flood prevention and typhoon prevention in navigation channels, navigation structures and water service areas. Timely coordinate and solve the problem of poor operation of individual ship locks, and take measures such as optimized dispatching and in-depth potential tapping to improve navigation efficiency. The third is to ensure the delivery of ship capacity. International liner companies were guided to ensure the investment of flights and accommodation on export routes of Shanghai port and other ports, and increased the online booking and delivery of space in the spot market. The overall freight rate continued to decline. Fourth, strengthen upstream and downstream linkage. We will guide port enterprises such as Shanghai port group to adopt preferential measures for the use of heavy container storage yards, and COSCO Shipping Group and other international liner companies to reduce and remit the demurrage charges and other charges. Port and shipping enterprises should strengthen the connection between supply and demand with key production enterprises and import and export enterprises, and give priority to the transportation needs of key materials. Fifth, strengthen the empowerment of science and technology. Vigorously promote non-contact operation and paperless operation, promote the electronic circulation of port and shipping operation documents, and deploy and apply the blockchain based electronic release of container cargo from port and shipping. The Beijing Hangzhou canal lock vigorously promoted the online declaration, "water etc" and other lock passing modes, and the electronic channel map of the Yangtze River trunk line was completed and put into use. (Xinhua News Agency)