The largest seaports by cargo turnover on the map. The largest sea and river ports in the world

The air and rail transportation industry is developing quite rapidly. But they still cannot surpass the most large-scale and economical logistics channel - water.

Most of the goods on store shelves (these are phones, computers, spare parts and much more) are not locally produced. They are made in other countries and on other continents. And more than 70 percent of all world products are transported across the seas and oceans using containers.

In the late 80s of the last century, Asia accounted for half of the positions in the list of the twenty largest ports in the world. Well, twenty years later, the list has changed beyond recognition. Eastern ports in the top twenty became one and a half times more. Moreover, half of them are in China. And there is nothing surprising in this, since the size of exports from Asia to different parts of the world is unusually large. So, we present the largest ports in the world.

Singapore

It is the busiest port in the entire world. It can receive more than 25.6 million containers per year. And this number is only growing every year. At the same time, it is easy to calculate how many ordinary seven-meter containers can pass the port of the state, in which the population is 5 million people. According to experts, there are more than five containers for every Singaporean. And that's just now. Twenty years ago, the figure was almost six times less. By the way, the main port operator is PSA International. It is state-owned and occupies five of the port's six terminals.

The port of Singapore is striking in its scale. Its total area exceeds 600 hectares. The port has 172 port cranes and more than fifty container berths. Approximately 200 trade routes lead to the port.

The largest port in the world

Moreover, this international port cooperates with 123 countries of the world, that is, with approximately 600 ports. According to the specialist, approximately 7 percent of all container traffic passes through Singapore.

China, Shanghai

China recently became the largest exporter on the planet after Germany. And Shanghai has one of the busiest ports in the world, which is a serious competitor to the Singapore port. Shanghai is able to receive more than 25 million containers per year. The throughput of the Shanghai port is growing exponentially. And this largest port in China brings in billions of dollars in profits, not without the help of the operator Shanghai International Port Group.

It is worth noting that Shanghai, whose population is three times that of Singapore, cannot boast of a huge turnover per capita. The volume of traffic is high, but there is only one and a half containers of cargo per inhabitant per year. Nevertheless, this is a decent level, experts say. Provided that twenty years ago the port was not even among the twenty largest and busiest.

China, Hong Kong

And this is the second largest port in China. His work is controlled by a billionaire named Li Ka Shin. The port is operated by Hutchison Port Holdings, which is the world's largest container operator in 6 of the 9 largest ports on the planet. Twelve berths are open in Hong Kong, all capable of handling approximately 21 million containers. With a population of approximately 7 million, there are about 3 containers per inhabitant per year.

China, Shenzhen

In terms of congestion, Shenzhen is the second port on the mainland. It is constantly expanding its market share. And this is due to the convenient location. The port is located in the south of China, in close proximity to factories and near the Pearl River Delta. The largest port operator is China Merchants Holdings. It can transport and receive more than 18 million containers per year.

South Korea, Busan

The busiest port in South Korea. Berths account for more than 12 million containers of goods per year. The largest container company in the country, Hanjin Shipping, which operates at the berth, expects to increase its throughput by several times.

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The CEO says he plans to achieve this through collaboration with his competitors.

China, Guangzhou

This is the third largest port in the Chinese city, which is located in the Pearl River Delta. Up to 12 million containers are unloaded at the berths per year. The largest operator Guangzhou Port Group operates at the port.

UAE, Dubai

The world's fourth largest terminal-operator DP World. It is controlled by the state-owned holding company Dubai World. And recently she almost went bankrupt.

The business had to be reconstructed due to debts. DP World plans to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange to boost its earnings. By the way, about 12 million containers pass through the port of Dubai every year.

China, Ningbo

Oddly enough, another port of China is on the list. Nearly 11 million containers are received in Ningbo in twelve months. The port is in constant competition with a larger and nearby rival, the Shanghai International Port.

China, Qingdao

Overcrowded ships are constantly lining up in this port. As a rule, they are filled to capacity with dry mixes, since demand for raw materials is constantly growing in this place. During the year, the port terminals receive and process more than 10 million containers.

Netherlands, Rotterdam

The largest port in Europe. Its throughput is growing year by year. And now it has already reached 10 million containers. This is due to the fact that the operators have established trade relations with Asia. Carriers usually dock with an abundance of iron ore, scrap metal, bulk products and oil products.

It should be noted that the largest ports of the world are constantly gaining and losing their positions. It depends not only on the throughput, but also on the turnover. For example, at different times, the list of the largest and busiest includes the port of Los Angeles - Long Beach in the USA, the Belgian port of Antwerp, the port of Hamburg in Germany, the port of Kelang in Malaysia, as well as Laem Chabang in Thailand.
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Below is a list of the ten largest ports in the world, based on their annual container handling.

10 Port of Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe located at the mouths of the rivers Rhine and Meuse in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 1962 to 2004 was the busiest port in the world. In 2008, its total cargo traffic was over 421,000,000 tons. The port of Rotterdam, which has a long history dating back to the 14th century, is almost 40 km long and covers a total area of ​​105 square kilometers.

9 Qingdao

The ninth line in the ranking of the largest ports in the world is the port of Qingdao, located in the Yellow Sea near the city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1892. As of 2012, the cargo flow of this port amounted to about 400 million tons.

8 Jabal Ali

Jebel Ali port with a total area of ​​134 square kilometers is located on the northwestern coast of the United Arab Emirates, 35 kilometers from the city of Dubai. It was built between 1976–1979. It is the busiest port in the Middle East. In 2007, Jebel Ali served 8,696 ships with a total capacity of 227,894,526 tons. Capable of receiving ships up to 414 meters long. In 2011, the port's container handling was 13,010,000 TEU.

7 Guangzhou

Guangzhou Port is the main sea port of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Located at the intersection of three rivers - Xijiang, Beijiang and Dongjiang. It is currently the largest port in South China. As of 2013, its cargo traffic amounted to 460 million tons.

6 Busan

Busan Port is the largest port in South Korea, located at the mouth of the Naktong River near the city of Busan. It was founded in 1876. In 2013, the port served 14,306 vessels, of which 24.3% had a carrying capacity of more than 50,000 tons. It ranks sixth in the ranking with 13.2 million TEU.

5 Shenzhen Port

Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing ports in the world. Located in the Pearl River Delta, near the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. Includes 140 berths with a total length of 22 km. As of 2010, container handling of this port amounted to 22.51 million TEU.

4 Port of Hong Kong

Port of Hong Kong is one of the largest cargo ports in the world specializing in the handling of ISO containers, raw materials (crude oil) and building materials. Located in the waters of the South China Sea. In 2014, the port of Hong Kong handled 298 million tons of cargo and 22.2 million TEU. This is over 90% of Hong Kong's total cargo turnover. About 350 container ships visit it weekly.

3 Ningbo-Zhoushan

The third place in the list of the world's largest ports is occupied by Ningbo-Zhoushan, created as a result of the merger of the ports of Ningbo and Zhoushan on January 1, 2006. Located on the coast of the East China Sea in Zhejiang Province, China. In 2012, the port's cargo turnover was 744,000,000 tons.

Since 2008, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has been publishing data on the cargo turnover of the largest ports in the world. Based on these data, the current article reflects the change in the cargo turnover of the TOP-100 ports for the foreseeable period: 2008-2015.

Abbreviations used in the material: MT - metric tons, FT - freight, RT - registered tons.

It is worth bearing in mind that ratings based on tonnage (MT, FT, RT) should be interpreted with caution as these measures (MT, FT, RT) are not directly comparable and cannot be converted into a single standardized unit.

It should be noted that the figures for Russia cause some bewilderment. Since the cargo turnover of the commercial port of Novorossiysk (according to the annual report of Novorossiysk MTP OJSC) amounted to 127.1 million tons in 2015, Ust-Luga - 87.9 million tons, Vostochny - 65.2 million tons. AARA believes that it is much less - 73.3 million tons in the port of Novorossiysk, 17.785 million tons - Vostochny. There are no data for Ust-Luga at all.

The AARA data for the ports of Primorsk and St. Petersburg for 2015 are the same for AARA and Novorossiysk Shipping Port.

The table includes the data of OAO Novorossiysk Port for three Russian ports, since the AARA information for Vostochny, Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk is questionable. Although the sources of AARA stated the websites of the ports. It is strange that there is such a discrepancy from the fact.

Table - TOP-100 world ports in terms of cargo turnover in 2008-2015, thousand tons.

	Port	A country	Unit rev.**			Change 2008-2015	Change %
	Singapore	Singapore
	Guangzhou
	Rotterdam	Netherlands
	Port Hedland	Australia
	tianjin
		South Korea
		South Korea
	Qinhuangdao
	Port of South Louisiana
	Port Kelang	Malaysia
	Antwerp
	Xiamen (Amoi)
	Shenzhen
		South Korea
		Australia
	Newcastle	Australia
		South Korea
	Ithaca (Sao Luis)	Brazil
	Vancouver
		Germany
		Brazil
	Tanjung Pelepas	Malaysia
	Novorossiysk (NCSP data)
		Brazil
	hay point	Australia
	Yokohama
		Brazil
	Gladstone	Australia
	Richards Bay
	Kitakyushu
	Amsterdam	Netherlands
	Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
	Algeciras
	Ust-Luga (not in AARA)
	New Orleans
	Corpus Christi
	Laem Chabang
		Germany
	Novorossiysk (AARA data)
	Al Jubail	Saud. Arabia
	Saldanha Bay
	Valencia
		South Korea
	Bandar Abbas
	East (not in the TOP-100 AARA)
		Saud. Arabia
	Visakhapatnam
	Jawaharlal Nehru Port
	baton rouge
	Primorsk
		Philippines
	Constanta
	Chittagong	Bangladesh
	Los Angeles
		Saud. Arabia
	Mobile (Alabama)
	Virginia
	Saint Petersburg
	lake charles
	Chennai (Madras)
		South Korea
	Calcutta
		Pakistan
	Alexandria
	San Sebastian	Brazil
	Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)	Indonesia
	Port Plaquemines
	Barcelona
		Malaysia
	Bandar Khomeini
		Norway
	Port of Paranagua	Brazil

*2009

** MT - metric tons, FT - freight, RT - register tons

Ports from the TOP-100 are located in:

USA - 13 ports;

China - 10 ports;

Japan - 7 ports;

South Korea - 6 ports;

Brazil - 6 ports;

India - 6 ports;

Russia - 5 ports;

Australia - 5 ports;

Malaysia - 3 ports;

France - 3 ports;

Spain - 3 ports;

Saudi Arabia - 3 ports;

Türkiye - 3 ports;

In other countries, 2 ports or less from the TOP-100.

Of the TOP-10, 6 ports are Chinese. And one each is located in Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia and South Korea.

Novorossiysk (according to NCSP) takes 32nd place in the TOP-100, overtaking such well-known ports as the port of New York or Amsterdam. Ust-Luga (takes 46th place according to NCSP) corresponds to the volume of cargo turnover of Tokyo or Marseille.

The most significant increase (+1200%) in 2008-2015 noted in the cargo turnover of the port of Ust-Luga. Biggest failure: Pohang (Korea) and Kaohsiung (Taiwan) ports - (minus) 24% each.

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A port is a berth for sea and river vessels. The word is derived from the Latin "portus", which means "harbour, pier." They are different: passenger, commercial, fish, etc. However, all are endowed with a number of similar facilities for servicing ships: berths, stations, warehouses and terminals. Ports greatly facilitate human life, the construction of cities and the development of their infrastructure. Let's take a look at the top 10 of them.

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10 − Port of Busan, South Korea

Busan Port is the largest among similar facilities in the Republic of Korea. It can accommodate ships weighing 50,000 tons and 330 meters long, and is protected from strong winds from the West and North. Equipped with ship radar guidance system, it plays a big role in international trade. Its carrying capacity is 313.3 million tons per year.

Interesting!

Every year, performances, light and laser shows, festivals of lights are held in the port of Busan.

9 − Port of Dalian, China

The seaport of Dalian, also called Dairen and Dalniy, is one of the largest in China. It is located in the Yellow Sea and has 52 berths, the total length of which is 16 km. This allows Dairen to simultaneously receive 50 vessels weighing up to 30,000 tons. The annual cargo turnover of the facility is 320.8 million tons.

Through Dalian, various cargoes enter China: grain, oil, metals and industrial equipment.

Interesting!

The Dalniy port was founded by the Russians during the lease of the area from the PRC, later it was occupied by Japan and named Dairen. Today it is wholly owned by China.

8 - Port of Port Hedland, Australia

The port of Port Hedland is located in the northwestern part of Australia and is a cargo port, the basis of its activity is the export of iron ore. The annual turnover of the facility is 372.2 million tons. Gantry cranes with a capacity of 31 tons and 120 tons are used as forklifts.

Today, the city of Port Hedland is home to about 14,000 people and is also popular among tourists. The location on the ocean coast and the status of the largest port in Australia fuel interest in the settlement.

The port city of Ningbo is located in the eastern part of Zhejiang province in China. From Chinese, its name translates as "calm waves", is the personification of the suitability of this area for navigation. Its favorable geographical location allowed it to participate in international trade as early as 2000 years ago.

The carrying capacity of the port of Ningbo is 399.2 million tons per year. Due to the fact that there was a constant concentration of people of different cultures and religions, Catholic and Orthodox churches, Muslim mosques appeared here earlier than in many other parts of China. Within the city, they look very organically among themselves and in combination with Buddhist temples. Today, the city has 7.8 million inhabitants.

6 − Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands

The largest port in Europe is located in South Holland, in the city of Rotterdam. It has connections with Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands - the interior regions of all these countries are connected to the port of Rotterdam. It has access to the North Sea. Its length is 40 km, its area is 105 km².

The main part of cargo transportation attributable to this facility is oil and oil products. During the second half of the 20th century, the port of Rotterdam was the busiest in the world for 24 years, today its annual cargo turnover is 440.5 million tons.

5 − Port of Qingdao, China

Qingdao Port is located on the Shandong Peninsula in China. On the shores of Jiaozhou Bay, most of the buildings of the facility are located. They communicate with the Yellow Sea through a small channel, the width of which is 3 km. The bay is fed by 13 rivers that flow into it and which divide it into three main parts. Thanks to them, grain is imported, oil and agricultural products are exported.

Cargo turnover in Qingdao is more than 2 times higher than that of the largest US port - St. John the Baptist and amounts to 450.1 million tons per year.

Guangzhou Port is located at the mouth of the Pearl River in China and is currently the largest facility of its kind in South China. Is in interaction with 300 ports of 80 countries of the whole world. It has 4,600 berths at its disposal, today the port of Guangzhou accepts ships with a displacement of up to 100,000 tons. It is universal: it works with many types of cargo - liquid, dry, and the facility also cooperates with both sea and river vessels.

Previously, the Huangpu port was located on the territory of the Guangzhou construction, but the reform led to the fact that it became part of a new huge facility. Its cargo turnover is 472.8 million tons per year - this load is almost 3.5 times greater than that experienced by Germany's largest port, located in Hamburg.

3 − Port of Tianjin, China

The port of Tianjin is located at the mouth of the Haihe River in northern China. It interacts with 400 ports in 180 countries of the world. Every year its cargo turnover is growing: in the period from 2004 to 2011 it managed to double, today this figure is 477.3 million tons, which is 7.5 times more than the cargo turnover of the largest oil loading port in the Baltic in Russia. Yu Rumin, chairman of the corporation that manages the facility, notes that the rapid growth of Tianjin Port has been made possible by the development of China's economy.

Interesting!

The city in which the port of Tianjin is located is located 170 km from Beijing, the capital of China. It is home to 14.5 million people employed in fishing, engineering, petrochemical and metallurgical industries. The city of Tianjin also has its own oil reserves, the volume of which is estimated at 1 billion tons.

2 − Port of Singapore, Singapore

Moscow, October 10 - Vesti.Ekonomika. Transneft bought Summa's stake in the joint venture that controls the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port. As , the company increased its stake in the NCSP group to 60.62%.

Novorossiysk Commercial Seaport is one of the largest seaports in Russia.

"The Board of Directors was informed of the execution of its earlier decision to increase the NCSP Group's stake in Transneft to 60.62%. The transaction was closed by acquiring a 100% stake in Novoport Holding, a joint venture owned on a parity basis by Transneft "and the Summa group and controlling 50.1% of NCSP," the message on the website of PJSC Transneft, published following the meeting of the board of directors, says.

Below we will talk about the 10 largest seaports in Russia.

1. Novorossiysk

Freight turnover in 2017: 147.4 Mt

Novorossiysk Seaport is one of the largest ports on the Black Sea and the largest port in the Krasnodar Territory.

The record holder of Russian ports in terms of the length of the berthing line, reaching a length of 8.3 km.

The seaport is located on its northeastern coast in the non-freezing and convenient for navigation Novorossiysk or Tsemesskaya bay.

Navigation in the port lasts all year round, although it may be interrupted in winter.

2. Ust-Luga

Freight turnover in 2017: 10.3.3 million tons

Ust-Luga is a commercial sea port in the north-west of Russia, in the Leningrad region, in the Luga Bay of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea near the village of Ust-Luga.

Started work with the opening of a coal terminal in December 2001, the existing timber terminal at the mouth of the Luga River was included in the port.

Navigation conditions in this part of the Gulf of Finland make it possible to carry out almost year-round operation of the port with a short period of ice assistance (the duration of navigation without the use of icebreakers in the Luga Bay reaches 326 days a year).

3. Port Vostochny

Freight turnover in 2017: 69.2 Mt

Port Vostochny is a Russian seaport of federal importance in the Wrangel Bay of the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of ​​Japan.

In 1968, design and survey work began on the site of the future seaport. Construction began on December 16, 1970, in April 1971 it was declared the All-Union shock Komsomol construction site, was under the control of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

It was planned to build 64 berths with a length of 15 km, for the workers of the new port it was planned to build a satellite city for 50 thousand inhabitants, the port's cargo turnover was to be 40 million tons.

The state control of ensuring the safety of navigation and order in the port is carried out by the federal state institution "Administration of the Sea Port of Vostochny", headed by the captain of the port of Vostochny.

4. Primorsk

Freight turnover in 2017: 57.6 Mt

The port of Primorsk is the largest Russian oil loading port in the Baltic, the end point of the Baltic pipeline system. The port is located on the mainland of the Bjorkesund Strait of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, 5 km southeast of the city of Primorsk.

The port is designed to serve tankers with a deadweight of up to 150 thousand tons, a length of up to 307 m, a width of 55 m and a draft of 15.5 m, that is, vessels with ships close to the maximum draft, capable of entering the Baltic Sea from the ocean.

There are 18 oil storage tanks with a capacity of 50,000 tons each, storage tanks for light oil products and several emergency discharge tanks on the territory of the port.

5. "Big port of St. Petersburg"

Freight turnover in 2017: 53.6 Mt

"Big Port St. Petersburg" is a large seaport in the North-West of Russia. The area of ​​the port water area is 164.6 sq. km, the length of the mooring line is 31 km.

Port "Saint-Petersburg" is located on the islands of the Neva River Delta, in the Neva Bay in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.

The "Big Port of St. Petersburg" includes the berths of the commercial, timber, fishing and river ports, an oil terminal, shipbuilding, ship repair and other plants, a sea passenger station, a river passenger port, as well as the berths of Kronstadt, Lomonosov, the port points of Gorskaya, Bronka.

6. Murmansk

Freight turnover in 2017: 51.7 Mt

Murmansk Commercial Seaport - a seaport located on the eastern shore of the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea, the largest transport company in the city of Murmansk.

Murmansk port consists of three parts: "Fishing port", "Trading port" and "Passenger".

In recent years, there has been a tendency for the Trade Port to crowd out all the rest due to an increase in the export of coal and a number of other mineral resources, for the reception and storage of which Murmansk has the necessary infrastructure.

The supply of fish has significantly decreased, since it has become more profitable to export it, and not inside the country. In September 2015, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the enterprise, the port museum was opened.

7. "Port Caucasus"

Freight turnover in 2017: 35.3 Mt

The port is one of the largest passenger ports in Russia due to the ferry service to the Crimea with a capacity of about 400 thousand passengers per year.

The port allows to receive railway ferries, which, apart from Kerch, run between the port and Varna in Bulgaria.

The port is located on the Chushka spit in the Kerch Strait, in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory of Russia.

8. Vanino

Freight turnover in 2017: 29.2 Mt

Port of Vanino is a Russian seaport of federal significance in the deep-water Vanina Bay, the largest in the Khabarovsk Territory.

It is located on the northwestern shore of Vanina Bay in the Tatar Strait and on the Baikal-Amur Railway.

Navigation in the port is open all year round. In winter, when the water area of ​​the bay is covered with ice (from January to March), ships are escorted by icebreakers. The port operates around the clock.

The commercial port has 22 cargo berths and piers with a total length of more than 3 km. They are part of four transshipment complexes and an oil loading terminal.

9. Tuapse

Freight turnover in 2017: 26.6 Mt

The seaport of Tuapse is located on the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea at the top of Tuapse Bay, to the southeast of Cape Kodosh and includes sections of the water surface at the mouths of the Pauk and Tuapse rivers.

Currently, the seaport of Tuapse is a multi-purpose, open for navigation all year round, operating around the clock, providing cargo operations with cargo, including dangerous goods of 3–5, 9 hazard classes, foreign trade transportation of oil and oil products, as well as bulk (coal, ore etc.), general cargo, grain, mineral fertilizers and agricultural products.