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The port of Busan rose from sixth to fourth place in the list of world container ports
Passed Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The result was achieved thanks to the growth of transfers
June 29, 2020
Remembering that last year the port of Busan moved 21.11 million teu ranked sixth in the global list of container ports, the port authority South Korea noted that in the first five months of this year, shipping and container traffic from Shanghai, which last year was the world's first container port, totaling over 16.4 million teu recorded a decrease of -7.5% on the corresponding 2019, while Singapore - the second container port 14.9 million teu experienced a decline in the global -0.7%, Ningbo-Zhousan - the world's third largest port - with 10.7 million teu showed a decrease of -6.7%, while Busan, with a down -1.5% rose to fourth place in the Shenzhen with 8.9 million teu (-13.4%), Guangzhou with 8.7 million teu (-3.9%), Qingdao with 8.5 million Teu (-0.5%), Hong Kong with 7.1 million teu (-6.5%), Tianjin with 6.9 million teu (up 1.6%) Rotterdam with 5.9 million teu (-4,7%).
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Remembering that last year the port of Busan moved 21.11 million teu ranked sixth in the global list of container ports, the port authority South Korea noted that in the first five months of this year, shipping and container traffic from Shanghai, which last year was the world's first container port, totaling over 16.4 million teu recorded a decrease of -7.5% on the corresponding 2019, while Singapore - the second container port 14.9 million teu experienced a decline in the global -0.7%, Ningbo-Zhousan - the world's third largest port - with 10.7 million teu showed a decrease of -6.7%, while Busan, with a down -1.5% rose to fourth place in the Shenzhen with 8.9 million teu (-13.4%), Guangzhou with 8.7 million teu (-3.9%), Qingdao with 8.5 million Teu (-0.5%), Hong Kong with 7.1 million teu (-6.5%), Tianjin with 6.9 million teu (up 1.6%) Rotterdam with 5.9 million teu (-4,7%).
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