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3-7 Top 10 World Container Ports: 2014

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

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By TEUs including full and empty TEUs

Rank Port '13-'14 change Millions of TEUs
1 Shanghai 5.0% 35.3
2 Singapore 4.0% 33.9
3 Shenzhen 2.2% 23.8
4 Hong Kong 0.1% 22.4
5 Ningbo 12.3% 19.5
6 Busan 4.6% 18.4
7 Qingdao 7.1% 16.6
8 Guangzhou 5.6% 16.2
9 Dubai Ports 8.5% 14.8
10 Tianjin 8.1% 14.1
18 Los Angeles 6.0% 8.3
20 Long Beach 1.3% 6.8
24 New York/New Jersey 5.6% 5.8

Key: TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit.

Source: American Association of Port Authorities, World Port Rankings, available at www.aapa-ports.org as of October 2016.