Container Ports
52 ports
Shanghai
The busiest container port in the world every year since 2010. The Yangshan Deep Water Port, opened in 2005 across a 32 kilometer ...
Singapore
The busiest transshipment hub on Earth at the tip of the Malay peninsula. Singapore connects every major shipping line through PSA...
Ningbo-Zhoushan
Formed by merging Ningbo and Zhoushan in 2006, the busiest port on Earth by cargo tonnage, moving over 1.3 billion tonnes a year f...
Shenzhen
A cluster of ports including Yantian, Shekou, and Chiwan that grew from fishing villages into one of the largest container gateway...
Qingdao
The leading port of northern China, handling containers, iron ore, crude oil, and grain. Qianwan automated terminals and the huge ...
Guangzhou
The historic river port of the Pearl River Delta, reborn at deepwater Nansha island. Guangzhou was the only Chinese port open to W...
Tianjin
The maritime gateway for Beijing and northern China, about 150 kilometers up the Hai River estuary. A 2015 warehouse explosion at ...
Xiamen
The main port of Fujian province, facing Taiwan across the strait. Trading since the 1500s as Amoy, Xiamen now runs major terminal...
Hong Kong
The container pioneer of Asia and the busiest port in the world through much of the 1990s. Kwai Tsing container terminals moved sh...
Kaohsiung
The premier port of Taiwan, once the third busiest container port in the world in the mid 1990s. Kaohsiung still handles around 10...
Busan
The busiest port in Korea and a top five container hub worldwide. Busan thrives on transshipment between China, Japan, Russia, and...
Tokyo
The largest container port of Japan by volume, with terminals at Oi, Shinagawa, and Aomi inside Tokyo Bay. Around 5 million TEU a ...
Sydney (Port Botany)
The main container port of Australia, on reclaimed land in Botany Bay opened in 1979. Port Botany handles about 2.7 million TEU a ...
Port Klang
The busiest port of Malaysia, sitting at the head of the Klang Valley beside Kuala Lumpur. Westport and Northport on Pulau Indah p...
Tanjung Pelepas
A greenfield port opened in 1999 at the southern tip of Malaysia that stunned the industry by winning Maersk Line hub business fro...
Laem Chabang
The deepsea workhorse of Thailand, opened in 1991 to relieve congested Bangkok river berths. Laem Chabang moves about 8.5 million ...
Ho Chi Minh City
The container engine of Vietnam, centered on Cat Lai terminal up the Saigon River. Garments, furniture, and electronics exports pu...
Manila
The historic capital port of the Philippines, serving metro Manila with over 14 million people. The South Harbor and the Manila In...
Jakarta (Tanjung Priok)
The main port of Indonesia, serving the Jakarta region of over 30 million people. Tanjung Priok moved about 8 million TEU a year, ...
Colombo
The transshipment capital of South Asia, standing where Indian subcontinent feeder lines meet east west mainline services. About 7...
Chittagong
The primary port of Bangladesh on the Karnaphuli River, moving the garment exports that power the economy. Renamed Chattogram in 2...
Mundra
The largest private port in India, built by the Adani Group on Gujarat salt flats from the late 1990s. Mundra overtook the contain...
Nhava Sheva
Officially Jawaharlal Nehru Port, opened in 1989 across the harbor from Mumbai to bypass crowded city docks. Nhava Sheva is the la...
Karachi
The historic deepsea port of Pakistan on the Arabian Sea, serving Karachi and the Indus hinterland. The Port of Karachi handles ab...
Jebel Ali
The flagship of Dubai and the largest man made harbor in the world, opened in 1979. Jebel Ali ranks in the global top ten with abo...
Salalah
The container port of Oman, opened in 1998 just outside the Indian Ocean monsoon belt. Salalah turns around about 4 million TEU a ...
Rotterdam
The largest port in Europe for sixty years. Maasvlakte 2, reclaimed land opened in 2013, extended the port into the North Sea with...
Antwerp-Bruges
Antwerp merged with Zeebrugge in 2022 to form Antwerp-Bruges, the second busiest port in Europe with about 12 million TEU. The Sch...
Hamburg
The largest port in Germany and the traditional gateway to Central and Eastern Europe. About 8 million TEU a year move by deep sea...
Bremerhaven
The overseas port of Bremen at the Weser mouth, a car export powerhouse handling well over a million vehicles a year alongside abo...
Piraeus
The ancient harbor of Athens, serving the city since the fifth century BC. COSCO investment from 2009 and majority control from 20...
Valencia
The busiest container port of Spain and a Mediterranean leader. Valencia serves the industrial east coast and the Madrid hinterlan...
Algeciras
The Spanish port at the Strait of Gibraltar, a natural first and last call between the Atlantic and Mediterranean. About 5 million...
Le Havre
The leading container port of France at the Seine mouth, with the Port 2000 terminals opened in 2006. About 3 million TEU a year p...
Felixstowe
The busiest container port in the United Kingdom, handling about 4 million TEU a year. Felixstowe pioneered British containerizati...
Gdansk
The Baltic success story of the 2010s, where the deepwater DCT terminal opened in 2007 and made Gdansk the hub for Poland and beyo...
Tanger Med
The largest port in Africa and the Mediterranean, opened in 2007 on the Strait of Gibraltar. About 8 million TEU a year pass throu...
Durban
The busiest port in sub-Saharan Africa, handling about 2.5 million TEU a year for the South African interior. The 2021 unrest and ...
Los Angeles
The busiest container port in North America. Together with neighboring Long Beach it forms the San Pedro Bay complex moving roughl...
Long Beach
The partner of Los Angeles across San Pedro Bay. Long Beach invests heavily in zero emission equipment and shares rail yard upgrad...
New York and New Jersey
The largest port on the East Coast of North America. Terminals at Port Elizabeth, Newark, and Staten Island serve 35 million consu...
Savannah
The fastest rising container port of the United States, moving about 5.4 million TEU a year through Garden City, the largest singl...
Vancouver
The largest port in Canada, handling about 3.5 million TEU a year plus record grain and bulk movements. Centered on Burrard Inlet ...
Santos
The largest port in Latin America, shipping coffee since the 1890s docks that opened Brazil to mass export. Santos now moves about...
Yokohama
Opened to foreign trade in 1859 as one of the first treaty ports after the end of Japanese seclusion, Yokohama grew from a fishing...
Gioia Tauro
A transshipment hub on the Calabrian coast built in the 1970s for a steelworks that was never completed and converted to container...
Gothenburg
On the Swedish west coast at the mouth of the Gota alv, Gothenburg handles a large share of Swedish foreign trade in containers, c...
Mombasa
An ancient Swahili trading city on an island whose Kilindini harbor serves Kenya and the landlocked hinterland of Uganda, Rwanda, ...
Djibouti
A small state at the Bab el-Mandeb strait whose port lives on transit cargo for Ethiopia, linked by road and the electrified Addis...
Lagos
Apapa and Tin Can Island in Lagos harbor handle most Nigerian container imports, long plagued by truck queues and congestion on ac...
Callao
Founded by the Spanish in 1537 as the port for Lima, Callao shipped Andean silver to Panama for transfer to Spain and was later gu...
Cartagena
The fortified Spanish treasure port on the Caribbean coast, protected by walls and the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas, now part of...