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The following lists of ports cover ports of various types, maritime facilities with one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo. Most are on the sea coast or an estuary, but some are many miles inland, with access to the sea via river or canal.
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.
This list ranks the busiest seaports by cargo tonnage, which refers to the total mass, or in some cases the volume, of cargo transported through each port.The rankings are based on AAPA world port data.
Wilmington Marine Terminal, Delaware; Port of New York and New Jersey. Howland Hook Marine Terminal, Staten Island, New York; Port Jersey Marine Terminal, Jersey City, New Jersey; Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, New Jersey; Red Hook Marine Terminal, Brooklyn, New York; Port of Savannah, Georgia; Port of Charleston, South Carolina
The World Port Index (PUB 150) contains a tabular listing of thousands of ports throughout the world, describing their location, characteristics, known facilities, and available services. Of particular interest are the applicable volume of Sailing Directions and the number of the harbor chart .
An inland port is a port on a navigable lake, river (fluvial port), or canal with access to a sea or ocean, which therefore allows a ship to sail from the ocean inland to the port to load or unload its cargo.
This is a list of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean, excluding the ports of the Baltic Sea. For inland ports on rivers, canals, and lakes, including the Great Lakes , Saint Lawrence Seaway , and Mississippi River , see inland port .
Busiest container ports 2020-2021. The following list sorts countries and territories by volume of container port traffic in Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) according to data from the World Bank. [1]