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3-7 Top 10 World Container Ports: 2012

Thursday, January 8, 2015

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by full and empty TEUs

Rank Port '11-'12 change Millions of TEUs
1 Shanghai 2.5% 32.5
2 Singapore 5.7% 31.6
3 Hong Kong -5.2% 23.1
4 Shenzhen 1.7% 23.0
5 Busan 5.3% 17.0
6 Ningbo 14.0% 16.8
7 Quindao 12.2% 14.6
8 Guangzhou 1.8% 14.5
9 Dubai 5.2% 13.3
10 Tianjin 6.1% 12.3
16 Los Angeles 1.7% 8.1
22 Long Beach -0.3% 6.0
24 New York/New Jersey 0.5% 5.5

Key: TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit.

Source: American Association of Port Authorities, World Port Rankings, available at www.aapa-ports.org as of September 2014.