Table 4 Top 20 World Container Ports: 2000 and 2004
Table 4
Top 20 World Container Ports: 2000 and 2004
(Thousands of loaded and unloaded TEUs)
| Rank in 2000 |
Rank in 2004 |
2004 | Country | TEUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Hong Kong | China | 21,984 |
| 2 | 2 | Singapore | Singapore | 21,329 |
| 6 | 3 | Shanghai | China | 14,557 |
| 23 | 4 | Shenzhen | China | 13,615 |
| 3 | 5 | Busan | South Korea | 11,430 |
| 4 | 6 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 9,714 |
| 5 | 7 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 8,281 |
| 7 | 8 | Los Angeles | United States | 7,321 |
| 9 | 9 | Hamburg | Germany | 7,003 |
| 13 | 10 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 6,429 |
| 10 | 11 | Antwerp | Belgium | 6,064 |
| 8 | 12 | Long Beach | United States | 5,780 |
| 12 | 13 | Port Kalang | Malaysia | 5,244 |
| 24 | 14 | Quingdao | China | 5,140 |
| 14 | 15 | New York/New Jersey | United States | 4,478 |
| 108 | 16 | Tanjung Pelepas | Malaysia | 4,020 |
| ** | 17 | Ningbo | China | 4,006 |
| 31 | 18 | Tianjin | China | 3,814 |
| 11 | 19 | Tanjug Priok | Indonesia | 3,597 |
| 25 | 20 | Laem Chabang | Thailand | 3,529 |
** Ningbo was unranked among the world's major ports in 2000. In that year, it handled only 902,000 TEUs (www.nbport.com.cn).
NOTES: TEUs = 20-foot equivalent units. One 20-foot container equals one TEU.
SOURCE: 2004-American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), World Port Rankings:2004 (Container Traffic), available at http://www.aapa-ports.org/, as of September 2006. 2000-Data obtained through personal communication with AAPA, October 2006.