ChiNext Index losses widened to 2% in the afternoon; Shenzhen Composite Index down 1.46%; China’s Shanghai Composite Index down 0.35%.

Container-shipping index (Europe route) front-month contract rose over 8.00% intraday to 3,774.5 points.

China Ministry of Transport said for the week May 25-31: rail freight totaled 80.10 mln tonnes, down 0.84% w/w; highway truck passages were 55.37 mln, up 1.65% w/w; monitored ports handled 281.09 mln tonnes of cargo, up 8.03% w/w, and 6.98 mln TEU of containers, up 10.04% w/w; civil aviation operated 110,000 flights, down 1.46% w/w, including 5,039 cargo flights (3,250 international, 1,789 domestic); postal and courier pickups were about 4.39 bln items, up 2.19% w/w, with deliveries about 4.39 bln items, up 1.71% w/w.