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Table 3-7: Top 30 U.S. Containership Ports: 2003

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 3-7: Top 30 U.S. Containership Ports: 2003

(Thousands of TEUs)

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Port Rank Total Export Import
Los Angeles, CA 1 4,664 1,022 3,642
Long Beach, CA 2 3,091 723 2,368
New York, NY 3 2,803 838 1,965
Charleston, SC 4 1,250 529 721
Savannah, GA 5 1,124 529 595
Norfolk, VA 6 1,093 460 633
Oakland, CA 7 1,064 548 517
Houston, TX 8 933 483 450
Tacoma, WA 9 931 337 594
Seattle, WA 10 815 329 486
Miami, FL 11 764 336 428
Port Everglades, FL 12 423 236 187
Baltimore, MD 13 307 115 192
New Orleans, LA 14 237 139 98
Portland, OR 15 210 147 63
Wilmington, DE 16 195 29 166
San Juan 17 185 39 147
Gulfport, MS 18 179 71 108
West Palm Beach, FL 19 140 106 34
Jacksonville, FL 20 113 72 42
Philadelphia, PA 21 103 9 95
Boston, MA 22 93 34 58
Newport News, VA 23 80 32 48
Chester, PA 24 72 28 44
Wilmington, NC 25 72 28 44
San Diego 26 53 9 44
Freeport, TX 27 50 23 28
Richmond, VA 28 41 20 21
Honolulu, HI 29 37 18 19
PT Bienville, MS 30 25 23 2
United States, total   21,289 7,389 13,899
Top 30 ports as % of U.S. total   99.3% 99.0% 99.6%

KEY: TEUs = twenty-foot equivalent units.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, U.S. Waterborne Foreign Trade Containerized Cargo, based on the original data source: Port Import/Export Reporting Service, available at http://www.marad.dot.gov/Marad_Statistics/Container-03.htm as of June 4, 2004.