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Ten world’s top ports
By Seth Onyango
Date: May 17, 2016
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Ports constitute an important economic activity in coastal areas. We explore the list of the world’s busiest container ports by total number of actual twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the ports according to Forbes. TEU stands for “twenty-foot equivalent units”. A standard cargo carrier equals two TEUs.

1. Shanghai

The Port of Shanghai tops the list of mega ports. Whether it is the car you drove to work in, the computer at your desk or your children’s toys strewn across their bedroom floor, there is a very good chance they passed through the port. This is the world’s busiest trading port, which handles staggering 32 million containers a year carrying 736 million tonnes of goods to far-flung places around the globe.

It stretches as far as the eye can see with rows upon rows of containers stacked up waiting to be shipped abroad and bringing in billions of dollars to the Chinese economy in the process. It handled 33.62 million TEUs of cargo in 2013, up from 32.53 million in 2012 and the 31.74 million TEUs reported in 2011. The biggest US port is puny by comparison.

2. Singapore

The Port of Singapore is no longer number used to be the leading port in the world before it was knocked off its perch by the Port of Shanghai. Its container traffic, however, remains strong. The port handled 33.9 million containers in 2014. This is a four per cent increase from 2013. In 2013, the port recorded 32.63 million TEUs compared with the 31.65 million in 2012 and 29.94 million TEUs in 2011.

3. Shenzhen

Shenzhen is now the second largest Chinese port. In 2013, it handled 23.28 million TEUs, up from 22.94 million in 2012 and 22.57 million TEUs in 2011, according to the World Shipping Council. The Port of Shenzhen is a collective name of a number of ports along parts of the coastline of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.
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The port as a whole forms one of the busiest and fastest growing container ports in the world. The port is home to 39 shipping companies that have launched 131 international container routes. There are 560 ships on call at Shenzhen port on a monthly basis and also 21 feeder routes to other ports in the Pearl River Delta region.

4. Hong Kong

The port of Hong Kong used to be the biggest of all Chinese ports, but not anymore. Last year, Hong Kong continued to handle a dwindling number of containers as more and more ships head north to the mainland instead. The Hong Kong container port terminal handled 22.35 million TEUs in 2013, down from 23.12 million in 2012 and 24.38 million TEUs in 2011.

5. Busan Port, South Korea

Continued growth in shipping at Busan in 2013 saw 17.69 million TEUs go through the port, up from the 17.04 million in 2012 and 16.18 million in 2011. The Port of Busan (also called Pusan) is the second largest city and the largest port in South Korea. Located at the south-eastern tip of the Korean peninsula, the Port of Busan is a little over 110 nautical miles east-southeast of the Port of Kitakyushu in Japan and about 247 kilometres east of Korea’s Port of Mokpo.

The Port of Busan is a metropolitan city under the direct control of South Korea’s central government, giving it the effective status of a province. Located at the mouth of the Naktong River, the Port of Busan lies on a deep protected bay that faces Japan’s Tsushima Islands about half-way across the Korea Strait between the two countries. In 2005, over 3.5 million people lived in the Port of Busan.
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6. Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, China

The Ningbo-Zhoushan Port handled 17.33 million TEUs in 2013, up from the 16.83 million in 2012 and the 14.72 million TEUs in 2011. Ningbo Port was established in 738 during China’s ancient history. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it was known as one of the three major seaports for foreign trade under the name “Mingzhou”, along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou.

7. Qingdao, China

Qingdao handled 15.52 million TEUs in 2013, up again from the 14.5 million in 2012 and the 13.02 million TEUs recorded in 2011. Not bad for a country supposedly going through a hard landing.

8. Guangzhou Harbor, China

Despite a slowdown in exports out of China, the Guangzhou port continues to handle more cargo. In 2013 it handled 15.31 million TEUs of cargo, up from 14.74 million in 2012 and 14.42 million in 2011. The company was established on February 26, 2004 from the former Guangzhou Harbor Bureau.

It was approved by the Guangzhou Municipal Government. It is currently the largest comprehensive port in South China. Its international maritime trade reaches over 300 ports in more than 80 countries and districts worldwide.

9. Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, U.A.E

This Dubai port handled 13.64 million TEUs in 2013, up from 13.3 million in 2012 and 13 million TEUs in 2011, according to the World Shipping Council. The U.A.E. has successfully positioned itself as the hub between East and West shipping lanes, with more capacity currently being built out at the Khalifa Port outside of Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E. capital.

10. Tianjin, China

The Tianjin port in China recorded 13.01 million TEUs in 2013, up from 12.3 million in 2012 and 11.59 million in 2011.





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