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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 ...
A cargo ship has run aground in the Humber Estuary. Vessel Finder, a website that tracks the status of ships, said the current navigation status of H&S Wisdom was "aground" in the North Sea, near ...
Europe's busiest container port and biggest port by cargo tonnage by far is the Port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. It is followed by the Belgian Port of Antwerp or the German Port of Hamburg , depending on which metric is used. [ 39 ]
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.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwanese shipping firm Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp said one of its cargo ships caught fire on Friday at China's Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, one of the world's busiest. Earlier ...