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Table 3-7: Top 30 U.S. Containership Ports: 2010

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Table 3-7: Top 30 U.S. Containership Ports: 2010

(Thousands of TEUs)

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Port Rank Total Export Import
Los Angeles, CA 1 5,559 1,681 3,878
Long Beach, CA 2 4,434 1,385 3,049
New York, NY 3 4,043 1420 2,623
Savannah, GA 4 2,170 1115 1055
Oakland , CA 5 1,505 766 740
Norfolk, VA 6 1,435 714 721
Seattle, WA 7 1,417 529 888
Houston, TX 8 1,348 827 521
Charleston, SC 9 1,077 528 548
Tacoma, WA 10 836 340 496
Miami, FL 11 683 374 309
Port Everglades, FL 12 577 331 246
Baltimore, MD 13 448 168 280
New Orleans, LA 14 281 203 79
Jacksonville, FL 15 239 146 93
San Juan, PR 16 218 65 153
Wilmington, NC 17 207 92 115
Philadelphia, PA 18 186 42 144
Gulfport, MS 19 181 76 105
Wilmington, DE 20 156 24 132
Portland , OR 21 130 61 69
Boston, MA 22 124 44 80
West Palm Beach, FL 23 111 87 24
Chester, PA 24 83 37 46
Mobile, AL 25 83 47 35
Freeport, TX 26 57 26 31
San Diego, CA 27 51 1 50
Tampa, FL 28 31 8 23
Honolulu, HI 29 30 11 18
Panama City, FL 30 29 14 15
Top 30 ports, total   27,729 11,163 16,566
United States, all ports1   27,878 11,249 16,629
Top 30 ports as percent of U.S. total   99.5 99.2 99.6

1Includes Puerto Rico.

KEY: TEUs = twenty-foot equivalent units.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, U.S. Waterborne Foreign Container Trade by U.S. Custom Ports 2010 , available at http://www.marad.dot.gov/library_landing_page/data_and _statistics/Data_and _Statistics.htm as of March 22, 2012.