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List of busiest container ports

Index List of busiest container ports

This is a list of the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in shipping containers) by total number of actual twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. [1]

84 relations: Belgium, Bremerhaven, China, Colón, Panama, Container port, Containerization, Dongguan, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Intermodal container, Japan, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Khor Fakkan, Laem Chabang, Lianyungang, List of busiest ports in Europe, List of container shipping companies by ship fleets and containers, List of largest container ships, Malaysia, Malta, Malta Freeport, Mundra Port, Netherlands, Panama, Philippines, Port, Port Klang, Port of Algeciras, Port of Antwerp, Port of Busan, Port of Colombo, Port of Dalian, Port of Felixstowe, Port of Guangzhou, Port of Hamburg, Port of Hong Kong, Port of Jebel Ali, Port of Kaohsiung, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Manila, Port of Nanjing, Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, Port of Piraeus, Port of Rotterdam, ..., Port of Salalah, Port of Santos, Port of Savannah, Port of Seattle, Port of Shanghai, Port of Shenzhen, Port of Singapore, Port of Tacoma, Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Port of Tanjung Perak, Port of Tanjung Priok, Port of Tianjin, Port of Tokyo, Port of Valencia, Port of Xiamen, Port of Yingkou, Port Said, Qingdao Port, Rizhao, Saigon Port, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taicang, Taiwan, Thailand, Twenty-foot equivalent unit, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States container ports, Vietnam. Expand index (34 more) »

Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven (literally "Bremen's harbour", Low German: Bremerhoben) is a city at the seaport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Colón, Panama

Colón is a Panamanian city and sea port beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.

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Container port

A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation.

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Containerization

Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).

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Dongguan

Dongguan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province of South China.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Greece

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from ship to rail to truck – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jawaharlal Nehru Port

Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in India.

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Khor Fakkan

Khorfakkan (خورفكان) is a town located along the Gulf of Oman on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Laem Chabang

Laem Chabang (แหลมฉบัง) is a port city (thesaban nakhon) in Chonburi Province, Thailand.

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Lianyungang

Lianyungang is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China.

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List of busiest ports in Europe

Numbers in thousand TEU's, Ranks for 2016 There are a number of other major ports on the Mediterranean and the Baltic with levels of container traffic which would place them in the Top 20 table above, but they are omitted since they are located in countries which do not contribute to the Eurostat statistics from which the table has been produced.

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List of container shipping companies by ship fleets and containers

This list provides details of the world's top 50 liner shipping companies ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet as at 1 May 2017.

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List of largest container ships

This is a list of more than 180 of the largest container ships.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Malta Freeport

Malta Freeport is an international port on the island of Malta with a trade volume of 3.06 million TEUs in 2015.

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Mundra Port

Mundra Port is the largest private port of India located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch near Mundra, Kutch district, Gujarat.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Panama

Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Port Klang

Port Klang (Pelabuhan Klang, Jawi: ڤلابوهن كلاڠ) is a town and the main gateway by sea into Malaysia.

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Port of Algeciras

The Port of Algeciras is the port and harbour of Algeciras, a city located in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Port of Antwerp

The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships.

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Port of Busan

The Port of Busan is the largest port in South Korea, located in the city of Busan, South Korea.

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Port of Colombo

The Port of Colombo (known as Port of Kolomtota during the early 14th Century Kotte Kingdom) is the largest and busiest port in Sri Lanka.

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Port of Dalian

The Port of Dalian (38° 55' N 121° 41' E) founded in 1899 lies at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning province and is the most northern ice-free port in China.

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Port of Felixstowe

The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 42% of Britain's containerised trade.

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Port of Guangzhou

Port of Guangzhou is the main seaport of Guangzhou city, Guangdong province, China.

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Port of Hamburg

The Port of Hamburg (German: Hamburger Hafen) is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea.

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Port of Hong Kong

The Port of Hong Kong, located by the South China Sea, is a deepwater seaport dominated by trade in containerised manufactured products, and to a lesser extent raw materials and passengers.

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Port of Jebel Ali

Jebel Ali (جبل علي) (also sometime written "Mina Jabal Ali") is a deep port located in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Port of Kaohsiung

The Port of Kaohsiung (POK) is the largest harbor in Taiwan (Republic of China), handling approximately 10.26 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worth of cargo in 2015.

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Port of Long Beach

The Port of Long Beach, also known as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is the second-busiest container port in the United States, after the Port of Los Angeles, which it adjoins.

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Port of Los Angeles

The Port of Los Angeles, also called America's Port, is a port complex that occupies of land and water along of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach.

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Port of Manila

The Port of Manila (Pantalan ng Maynila) refers to the collective facilities and terminals that process maritime trade function in harbours that serve the Metro Manila Area.

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Port of Nanjing

The Port of Nanjing is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, and is the largest inland port in the world (depending on how you classify the ports in the Yangtze Delta), with throughput reaching 191 million tons of cargo in 2012.

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Port of New York and New Jersey

The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York-Newark metropolitan area, encompassing the region within approximately a radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.

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Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan

The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is a Chinese port that is the busiest in the world in terms of cargo tonnage, it handled 888.96 million tons cargoes in 2015, and keep ranking first of all the cargo ports around the world.

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Port of Piraeus

The Port of Piraeus is the largest Greek seaport and one of the biggest in the Mediterranean Sea and Europe.

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Port of Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Port of Salalah

The Port of Salalah is the largest port in Oman.

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Port of Santos

The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: Porto de Santos) is located in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Port of Savannah

The Port of Savannah is a major U. S. seaport located at Savannah, Georgia.

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Port of Seattle

The Port of Seattle is a government agency overseeing Seattle's seaport and airport.

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Port of Shanghai

The Port of Shanghai, located in the vicinity of Shanghai, comprises a deep-sea port and a river port.

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Port of Shenzhen

The Port of Shenzhen is a collective name of a number of ports along parts of the coastline of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

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Port of Singapore

The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in harbours and which handle Singapore's shipping.

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Port of Tacoma

The Port of Tacoma is an independent seaport located in Tacoma, Washington.

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Port of Tanjung Pelepas

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP, UN/Locode: MYTPP) is a container port located in Iskandar Puteri, Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia, and is part of the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network, which holds a minority share in the joint venture.

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Port of Tanjung Perak

Port of Tanjung Perak is the 2nd busiest sea port in Indonesia, located at Surabaya, East Java.

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Port of Tanjung Priok

The Port of Tanjung Priok is the busiest and most advanced Indonesian seaport, handling more than 50% of Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo traffic.

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Port of Tianjin

The Port of Tianjin (Tianjin Gang), formerly known as the Port of Tanggu, is the largest port in Northern China and the main maritime gateway to Beijing.

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Port of Tokyo

The Port of Tokyo is one of the largest Japanese seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Ocean basin having an annual traffic capacity of around 100 million tonnes of cargo and 4,500,000 TEU's.

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Port of Valencia

The Port of Valencia, seaport located in Valencia, Spain.

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Port of Xiamen

The Port of Xiamen is an important deep water port located on Xiamen Island, the adjacent mainland coast, and along the estuary of the Jiulongjiang River in southern Fujian, China.

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Port of Yingkou

The Port of Yingkou is an international seaport in Yingkou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.

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Port Said

Port Said (بورسعيد, the first syllable has its pronunciation from Arabic; unurbanized local pronunciation) is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787 (2010).

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Qingdao Port

The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the Yellow Sea in the vicinity of Qingdao, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.

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Rizhao

Rizhao is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shandong province, China.

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Saigon Port

Saigon Port is a network of ports in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Taicang

Taicang is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Twenty-foot equivalent unit

The twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة), sometimes simply called the Emirates (الإمارات), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States container ports

The United States has more than 20 Container ports around its coast line.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_ports

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