SOUTHEASTERN Jingjiang port in Jiangsu province has managed to maintain a steady growth to post a year-on-year 19.7 per cent increase in overall cargo volume to 73.68 million tonnes in the first 10 months, reports Xinhua.

The port's total number of arrival ships in the period increased 17.5 per cent to 37,621 units. Aggregate throughput of the port in the first three quarters reached 65.62 million tonnes, which was surpassed that did in the first 10 months in the last year.