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In 2020, Rotterdam was the world's tenth-largest container port in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) handled. [5] In 2017, Rotterdam was also the world's tenth-largest cargo port in terms of annual cargo tonnage. [6] Covering 105 square kilometres (41 sq mi), the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of 40 kilometres (25 mi).
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.
Top 20 ports of Europe by annual cargo tonnage; Port Country City/Cities Body of Water Tons Year Port of Rotterdam Netherlands: Rotterdam: North Sea: 435,800,000: 2024 [1] Port of Antwerp-Bruges Belgium: Antwerp, Bruges: North Sea: 277,700,000: 2024 [2] Port of Novorossiysk Russia: Novorossiysk: Black Sea: 161,400,000: 2023 [3] Port of Ust-Luga ...
Europoort (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈøːroːpoːrt], English: Eurogate, also "Europort") is an area of the Port of Rotterdam and the adjoining industrial area in the Netherlands. Being situated at Southside of the mouth of the rivers Rhine and Meuse with the hinterland consisting of the Netherlands, Germany , Belgium and partly France ...
The port's main activities are petrochemical industries and general cargo handling and transshipment. The harbour functions as an important transit point for bulk materials and between the European continent and overseas. From Rotterdam goods are transported by ship, river barge, train or road.
This list of ports in Denmark lists major ports in Denmark by cargo volume in 2014 as defined by Statistics ... Port of Aarhus: 7,614.000: 7,438.000: 2,841.000 ...
The cargo rankings based on tonnage should be interpreted with caution, since these measures are not directly comparable and cannot be standardized into a single unit. In the Measure column, MT = Metric Tons, HT = Harbor Tons, FT = Freight Tons, and RT = Revenue Tons.
The Waalhaven is a harbour in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is one of the excavated harbors on the south bank of the Maas in Rotterdam. With an area of 3.1 square kilometers, it is one of the larger dug harbor basins in the world. [citation needed] The harbour area includes an industrial zone focusing on maritime, industrial and logistics ...