This article lists the world's busiest Containerization, container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in Intermodal container, intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year. The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships, are 20-foot (1 TEU), and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO 668, ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent, that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted.
[Assuming that all boxes are either counted as 1 or 2 TEUs (which is pretty much the case), and that for every 20-foot / single TEU box, there are at least ''two'' 40-foot (or other 2 TEU) units (meaning 2 × 2 = 4 TEUs) in circulation, the 40-footers represent at least 80% of the TEU volume; and for every 10 TEUs, on average, at least 80% of them must be divided by two, to compute the actual number of boxes, meaning the total number of boxes drops below 60% of the number of TEUs moved.]
See also
*United States container ports
*List of largest container shipping companies
*List of largest container ships
*List of busiest ports in Europe
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Busiest Container Ports
Lists of ports, *
Container terminals, *
Intermodal containers
Economy-related lists of superlatives
Water transport-related lists, Container Ports, Busiest
Transport-related lists of superlatives, Container Ports