Throughput at Chinese ports reached 500 million tons in July, up 12.9 percent from the same month last year, marking the first double-digit growth since last September, according to a statement on the Ministry of Transportation website.

Of the total, throughput of foreign-trade goods rose to 190 million tons, an increase of 13.8 percent from last July; throughput of goods for internal trade went up to 310 million tons, up 12.5 percent from the same month last year.