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Shanghai has topped the global container table every year since 2010, passing 49 million TEU in 2023. Singapore follows at about 39 million, with Ning...
How Ports Measure Traffic: TEU, Tonnage, and PassengersContainer volumes use the TEU, the twenty foot equivalent unit of a standard steel box. One 40 foot container counts as two TEU. Bulk ports report ton...
How the Container Conquered TradeIn April 1956 Malcolm McLean loaded 58 containers aboard the converted tanker Ideal X at Port Newark and sailed for Houston, cutting cargo costs drama...
Canals, Capes, and the Routes That Choose PortsThe Suez Canal, opened in 1869, lets Asia Europe traffic skip the Cape of Good Hope and saves thousands of kilometers. When the Ever Given grounded in...
Five Ports That Once Ruled the WavesAlexandria fed Rome with grain and housed the greatest lighthouse of the ancient world. Quanzhou was the largest port on Earth around 1300, shipping s...
Inside a Modern Container TerminalA megaship of 20,000 TEU arrives with a crew of about 25 and must exchange thousands of boxes in a single day. Ship to shore cranes move containers to...