The 50 Busiest Shipping Container Ports In The World
Nine of the top ten busiest shipping ports are in Asia according to this map from Reddit user stony_phased, with only two of those nine being outside of China. This makes China the undisputed powerhouse of international container shipping.
The unit “TEU” stands for twenty-foot equivalent units, a volume measurement shipping companies use for estimating the volume of goods they ship. The 20 foot container is also the most commonly used container for moving belongings abroad.
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