The Journal of Commerce (JOC) has announced that China's top ten ports of 2012 all reported year-on-year growth in container volumes for July.

JOC reports the greatest increase was at Dalian, which rose 18.6 per cent to 854,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (teu). This was its largest growth for a fifth consecutive month.

Shenzhen - the second-ranked port - went up by 2.4 per cent to a volume of 2.09 million teu for July. Out of the first seven months of the year, it recorded year-on-year increases for five of them.

In the top five, JOC states Qingdao experienced the quickest growth, going up 10.1 per cent between January and July when compared with the period last year. In July alone, its volume increased by 8.2 per cent year-on-year, although a decline of 2.5 per cent is reported by month-on-month comparisons. It still had a throughput of 1.31 million teu.

Occupying tenth place was Tianjin, which had an upturn of one per cent to 1.09 million teu per month.