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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14 Jun 2013
The Port of Los Angeles reported cargo volume in May dropped 12.9 percent compared with the same month last year.
30 May 2013
Congressional reauthorization to start dredging may be waiting in the wings, but the Georgia Ports Authority isn’t waiting around for the $652 million in funding before beginning work on its long-delayed Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Indeed, the GPA is pressing ahead with pre-engineering and preparations for environmental mitigation along the 29-mile length of the river channel leading to the Port of Savannah.
30 May 2013
The Port of Busan is taking the significant threat and competition for Asian transshipment cargo about as serious as a port can, and responding aggressively by boosting capacity and facilities.
29 May 2013
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Gergel today accepted the settlement agreement between all parties involved in the mediation regarding the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project...
28 May 2013
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24 May 2013
The shocking announcement that J. Christopher Lytle, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, will resign to become executive director at the Port of Oakland is a major loss for the nation’s second largest container port and a huge victory for the Northern California port,
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