BEIJING — China's ports recorded growth of cargo throughput in January amid the country's steady economic recovery, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.

Cargo throughput at ports came in at 1.3 billion metric tons in January, up 0.6 percent year-on-year, the ministry said.

Last month, container handling volume at China's ports expanded by 1.6 percent from a year ago to 24.16 million twenty-foot equivalent units, the data showed.