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Box 3-C: Panama Canal Expansion

In 2015 nearly 14,000 ships transited the Panama Canal, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, carrying 340 million long tons1  of cargo, 70.2 percent of which was either going to or coming from the United States [PCA 2015]. Figure 3-12 shows major U.S. ports that handle trade...

Figure 3-10 Top 25 Water Ports by Containerized Cargo: 2015

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KEY: TEUs = twenty-foot equivalent units.

NOTE: The statistics include both government and non-government shipments by vessel into and out of U.S. foreign trade zones, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto...