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.
Marsha Salisbury
Marsha is a veteran insider of the shipping industry with experience in sales and business development. Marsha is the data expert for all things shipping. She has the unique expertise of looking at how yesterday’s experience and today’s metric build the maritime industry of tomorrow.
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For three years, Mediterranean Shipping Co. has fallen just short in the quest to be the top carrier in all three segments of the U.S. container trade: imports, exports and overall volume.
U.S. West Coast ports handled 13.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units or 67.5 percent of the 19.4 million TEUs in U.S. containerized cargo trade with Asian countries in 2012, a decline of 0.3 percent...
Mainland China accounted for 8.2 million 20-foot-equivalent units, or 36.3 percent, of the 22.6 million TEUs in U.S.
Pacific Northwest ports outpaced their southern West Coast rivals in year-over-year growth in container trade with Asia, with a 3.9 percent increase in imports, 1 percent in exports and 2.7 percent...
U.S. container trade with Asian countries reached nearly 17.8 million 20-foot-equivalent units in the first 11 months of 2012.
East Coast ports maintained their lead in containerized exports in the first nine months of 2012 and increased their share of import and export markets. And they did so despite shipper concerns at...
Eight European container ports handled 12.5 percent of the total TEU throughput...
Eight container ports in the Americas handled 8.7 percent of the total TEU throughput...
In ranking the ocean carriers serving the U.S. trade, perhaps Yogi Berra said it best: “It’s déjà vu, all over again.”
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