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INDIA STATS : Top 20 Container Cargo Ports in the world

Mumbai : May 18,2012

Containerization has revolutionalized the way international trade is carried out across the world. Today, nearly 90% of non-bulk-cargo world wide is moved by containers stacked on transport ships. 26% of all container transshipment is carried out in China.

Containers are built to standardized dimensions, and can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another—container ships, rail and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened. Containerization has led to greatly reduced transport costs and supported rapid increase in international trade.

India, has however, been slow in catching up with the container revolution. Our biggest port – JNPT in the Mumbai harbour, ranks a distant 26th in the list of largest container ports in the world.

The list of Top 20 container ports is as follows

Top 20 Container Ports in the World - 2010

No

Name of the Port

Country

Cargo handled

(in Million TEU)

01

Shangahi

China

29.069

02.

Singapore

Singapore

28.431

03

Hong Kong

China SAR

23.669

04

Shenzen

China

22.510

05

Busan

South Korea

14.194

06

Ningbo

China

13.144

07

Guangzhou

China

12.550

08

Qingdao

China

12.012

09

Dubai

UAE

11.600

10

Rotterdam

Netherlands

11.140

11

Tianjin

China

10.800

12

Kaohsiung

China

9.180

13

Port Klang

Malaysia

8.870

14

Antwerp

Belgium

8.470

15

Hamburg

Germany

7.916

16

Tanjung Pelepas

Malaysia

6.540

17

Los Angeles

USA

6.500

18

Long Beach

USA

6.260

19

Xiamen

China

5.820

20

New York

USA

5.290

26

JNPT, Mumbai

India

4.326

Source : Association of Port Authorities.

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