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In this paper, we propose the concept of local-oriented freight volume of inland water transport, which can reflect the inland waterway transportation level in a province or a city more truly and objectively. Based on the characteristics of China’s inland water transport, the local-oriented freight transportation can be broken down into two parts: short-distance transportation and long-distance transportation. The freight volume of short-distance transportation can be captured in existing statistical reports, the freight volume of long-distance transportation can be calculated through the basic data of report system for ships entering and leaving ports. We take Sichuan province as an example, and investigate the correlation between local-oriented freight volume and GDP. The results show that the correlation between local-oriented freight volume and GDP is higher than that between published freight volume and GDP, this indicates that the localoriented freight volume and its statistical method proposed in this paper is feasible and applicable.
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