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Rank Country / Region Container port traffic in TEUs Year 1 China 268,990,000 2022 2 United States 62,214,119 2022 3 Singapore 37,289,600 2022 4 South Korea ...
The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted. [1]
The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) [1] is a analysis tool created by the World Bank. [2] It is the combination of the weighted average of the country scores on six key dimensions: customs performance, infrastructure quality, ease of arranging shipments, logistics services quality, consignments tracking and tracing and timeliness of shipments as well as practical data measuring logistics ...
2002: [9] Container port traffic and container terminal throughput; 2003: [10] Developments in African trade and maritime transport; 2004: [11] Developments in Asian trade and maritime transport. 2005: [12] Developments in Latin American and Caribbean trade and maritime transport; 2006: [13] Sub Saharan Africa; 2007: [14] Asia; 2008: [15] Latin ...
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 .
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.
The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest port in the world in terms of cargo tonnage. It handled 888.96 million tons of cargo in 2015. [1] The port is located in Ningbo and Zhoushan, on the coast of the East China Sea, in Zhejiang province on the southeast end of Hangzhou Bay, across which it faces the municipality of Shanghai.
The port will also be able to facilitate triple-E class container ships (with an 18,000 TEU capacity) in a 300-metre-wide (980 ft) two-way sea lane. [17] The first phase of the project was completed in 2016, which has helped to improve the port's performance. The dwelling time in the port, which was once seven days, was reduced to almost three ...