28 Asia-Australasia ports handled 70.5 percent of the JOC Top 50 World Container Ports in calendar 2011.
Top 50 Container Ports
The Port of Shanghai was the busiest container port in the world in 2011, handling 31.7 million 20-foot-equivalent container units, more than double the 14 million TEUs moving through the largest U.S. port complex, Los Angeles-Long Beach; the 13 million TEUs of the Middle East’s top-ranked Jebel Ali in Dubai; and the 11.9 million TEUs of Europe’s top-ranked Rotterdam. Joining Shanghai on The Journal of Commerce annual ranking of the Top 50 World Container Ports, were another dozen Chinese ports, including Hong Kong. All told, the Chinese ports accounted for 40.7 percent of the 397 million TEUs of cargo moving through the Top 50. Just 29.8 percent of the cargo moving through the Top 50 ports came from outside Asia-Australasia. Ports in Asia and Australasia contributed 70.5 percent of all throughput among the Top 50. China trade was definitely hopping in the Year of the Hare. What will 2012 — the Year of the Dragon — deliver? And what’s ahead for 2013, the Year of the Snake?
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17 May 2013
A fraudulent article purporting to have been published by The Journal of Commerce was being circulated at Global Terminal
16 May 2013
LONG BEACH, Calif. — As North American container ports compete fiercely for market share, it’s becoming clear that the winners will be those that reliably and efficiently handle mega-ships on the water and land side of the berths.
14 May 2013
The Busan Port Authority recently completed a review of productivity at 10 container terminals as part of a plan to increase the port’s competitiveness.
29 Apr 2013
Rotterdam handled 4 percent more ocean containers in the first quarter than a year ago, but an increasing number were empty because of the continuing economic downturn across Europe.
26 Apr 2013
The United States may be the trade capital of the world, but if you’re looking for North America’s fastest-growing container ports, you’ll have to look north and south of its borders.
16 Apr 2013
The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex had a strong first quarter, with total container volumes, including loaded imports, loaded exports and empty containers, increasing 5 percent over the first three months of 2012.
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