The Journal of Commerce Ranks World's Top 50 Container Ports, China's Rise Continues

NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Port of Singapore remains the world's largest container shipping port despite falling volume during the global trade downturn, but the new Journal of Commerce ranking of the Top 50 World Container Ports shows China's ports largely weathered the worldwide recession and gained greater prominence among the world's ports.

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The world's five largest ports – Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Busan -- all showed double-digit declines from 2008, according to port reports and other information, including a 13.7 percent slide at Singapore.  

But the JOC's annual report, published in the Aug. 23-30, 2010 issue, showed that China's large role in manufacturing and maritime trade only expanded in the downturn of 2009.

Eight of the top nine ports are in Asia and six of the top nine are in China. Only two ports among the world's 15 largest showed any growth in the worst year ever in container shipping and both of those ports -- No. 6 Guangzho and No. 11 Tianjin -- are in China.

This week's JOC also includes a Cover Story examining the trucking industry's growing concern over the return of West Coast port congestion, and the Annual Guide to Trucking -- a 40-page special supplement analyzing the outlook for the North American trucking market that includes rankings and financial information on truckload, less-than-truckload, refrigerated, flatbed and bulk trucking companies.

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SOURCE The Journal of Commerce