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In the first quarter, Busan was confirmed as the seventh largest container port in the world
The South Korean ports have closed the first three months of 2022 with a total of 7.23 million teu (-1.3%)
April 26, 2022
In the port of Busan alone, traffic amounted to 5.53 million teu, with a decrease of -0.4% on the first trimester last year, of which 2.59 million teu in import-export (-1.2%) and 2.94 million teu in transhipment (+0.3%). The volume of container traffic handled in the first quarter of this year confirms the port of Busan in the seventh position of the ranking of the main world ports that sees Shanghai in first place followed by the ports of Singapore, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Guangzhou and then from the South Korean port.
Among the other major South Korean container ports of call, in the first three months of 2022 the port of Inchon has enlivened 750 thousand teu (-10.1%) and that of Gwangyang 540 thousand teu (+8.4%).
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In the port of Busan alone, traffic amounted to 5.53 million teu, with a decrease of -0.4% on the first trimester last year, of which 2.59 million teu in import-export (-1.2%) and 2.94 million teu in transhipment (+0.3%). The volume of container traffic handled in the first quarter of this year confirms the port of Busan in the seventh position of the ranking of the main world ports that sees Shanghai in first place followed by the ports of Singapore, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Guangzhou and then from the South Korean port.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
