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The Chinese behemoth gateway of Shanghai maintained its position as the world’s busiest container port. Container and Shipping Trade looks at the biggest 10 container ports and compares 2013 throughput with 2012.
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Throughput 2013: 13,641,000 teu – up 2.72 per cent on 2012 (13,280,000 teu)
The only port outside Asia in the top 10, Dubai is the major relay transshipment hub on the Asia-Europe trade, as well as being the gateway to the Gulf markets and – when international sanctions are eventually lifted – to the vast Iranian market.
The port is the home of DP World, which last year added another 1 million teu of much-needed capacity. This year it will add a further 4 million teu of capacity, in two phases, when it opens its Terminal 3 development.
Judging by year-to-date throughput, the additional capacity provided by Terminal 3 will be welcome. In the first six months of this year Dubai saw a throughput of 7.43 million teu, some 14.1 per cent above the same period last year.
The Chinese behemoth gateway of Shanghai maintained its position as the world’s busiest container port. Container and Shipping Trade looks at the biggest 10 container ports and compares 2013 throughput with 2012.
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