What are the top 10 seaports of the world for 2004, by container volume?

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Request for Question Clarification by skermit-ga on 23 Feb 2005 23:06 PST

According to the latest Review of Maritime Transport (2004) released
February 4th, 2004 (the next report is due out any day now):

 Port  	 TEUs 2003  
 Hong Kong (China)  	 20.82  
 Singapore  	 18.41  
 Shanghai  	 11.37  
 Shenzhen  	 10.7  
 Busan  	 10.37  
 Kaoshiung  	 8.81  
 Rotterdam  	 7.1  
 Los Angeles  	 6.61  
 Hamburg  	 6.14  
 Antwerp  	 5.44  
 Dubai  	 5.15  
 Port Klang  	 4.8  
 Long Beach  	 4.66  
 Quingdao  	 4.24  
 New York  	 4.04  
 Tanjung Pelepas  	 3.5  
 Tokyo  	 3.28  
 Bremenhaven  	 3.19  
 Laem Chabang  	 3.18  
 Gioia Tauro  	 3.06  
 Total top 20  	 144.87  

The numbers are in millions of TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units...
aka. shipping containers). Since this is the most recent data I could
find, please let me know if it fits your needs even though it is not
2004. Thank you very much.

skermit-ga

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Clarification of Question by thelelander-ga on 24 Feb 2005 03:58 PST

That is what I was expecting - my main point of confusion is that when
I google "biggest seaport in the world" Rotterdam is almost always #1
- is there a distinction between size an volume when defining
"biggest"?

The older data is ok, thanks for the speedy response.

According to the latest Review of Maritime Transport (2004) released
February 4th, 2004 (the next report is due out any day now):

 Port  	 TEUs 2003  
 Hong Kong (China)  	 20.82  
 Singapore  	 18.41  
 Shanghai  	 11.37  
 Shenzhen  	 10.7  
 Busan  	 10.37  
 Kaoshiung  	 8.81  
 Rotterdam  	 7.1  
 Los Angeles  	 6.61  
 Hamburg  	 6.14  
 Antwerp  	 5.44  
 Dubai  	 5.15  
 Port Klang  	 4.8  
 Long Beach  	 4.66  
 Quingdao  	 4.24  
 New York  	 4.04  
 Tanjung Pelepas  	 3.5  
 Tokyo  	 3.28  
 Bremenhaven  	 3.19  
 Laem Chabang  	 3.18  
 Gioia Tauro  	 3.06  
 Total top 20  	 144.87  

The numbers are in millions of TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units...
aka. shipping containers). Since this is the most recent data I could
find, please let me know if it fits your needs even though it is not
2004. Thank you very much.

skermit-ga

Those figures look like container traffic.

There is also Oil, LPG, grain, minerals