b'10American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comAJOTs Top 100(GROWTHcontinued from The Port of Chittagong in Ban- also shown their resilience. Takeping from 2.99 million TEUs in page 2) gladesh has also benefitted fromforexampletheSaudiportof2023 to 2.86 million TEUs in Container Ports inMalaysiahasalsobenefitedthe boom in Subcontinent busi- Jeddah and the Dubai port of Jebel2024. AnotherhubportGioia fromtheshiftinsourcingasnessandhandlednearly3.28Alione on the Red Sea andTauro, in Italy had a throughput #Port2024 TEUs have ports like Laem Chabangmillion TEUs ranking 63 rdin thisthe other on the Persian Gulf. 33 rd of 3.94 million TEUs in 2024 1Shanghai50,051,000inThailandnumber20withyears chart. rankedJeddahsnumberswereup from 3.55 million in 2023. 2Singapore41,120,000 9.46 million TEUs. And with theflat in 2024 while the Port of JebelStill, many of the other Med 3Ningbo-Zhoushan39,300,000 recentgrowthLaemChabangm iddlee asTP orTs and Ali continued to climb and now isports had good years. The ports 4Shenzhen(1)33,390,000 could find itself in top 10 in them ediTerranean number 9 in the rankings. But theofValencia(37),Barcelona 5Qingdao (2)30,870,000not-too-distant future, assumingThereislittledoubtthatSaudiKingAbdullahport[part(52), Le Havre [HARPOA] (64), 6Guangzhou 26,450,000 7Busan24,400,000Thailandseconomycontinuesthe throughout for ports in theoftheneweconomiczone]hasPiraeus, Genoa (72), Marseilles-8Tianjin23,290,000 to grow and avoids the worst ofMiddle East and Mediterraneanhit 3.5 million TEUs and is 57 th Fos(93)andLaSpezia(98), 9Dubai(Port of Jebel Ali)15,530,000 thetariffcomplications.Indo- havebeenadverselyimpactedin the rankings. Notably the Portalong with the Turkish ports led 10Port Kelang14,640,000 nesia has also become a majorby the Houthis attacks on com- of Dammam, another Saudi portby Ambarli (66) all had surpris-11Rotterdam13,800,000 sourcingareaandtheportsofmercialvesselstransitingthelocated on the Persian Gulf got aingly good years.12Hong Kong13,690,000TanjungPriokat7.6millionRedSeaandadjacentGulfofnice boost in 2024 and cleared the 13Antwerp-Bruges(3)13,500,000 TEUs and Tanjung Perak at 4.05AdenentrancetotheArabian3 million TEU mark, good for 65e uroPeanP orTs14Xiamen12,250,000 million TEUsranking27 th andSea. Some reports suggest thaton the listin part due to beingEuropesportshavebeen 15Tanjung Pelepas12,250,00049 threflect the industrial shift outSuezCanaltrafficisdownasa staging area for work-around forchallengedonthreefronts:the 16Los Angeles10,297,352of China. And like Thailand a lotmuchas65%anditisworththe troubles in the Red Sea. Chinatradedisputes,thedis-17Tanger Med10,241,392 18Suzhou(Taicang) 10,000,000 will depend on how the countrynoting that 30% global box traf- TheMediterraneanportsruption caused by Houthis mis-19Long Beach9,649,724navigates U.S. tariffs. fic is estimated to pass throughfared well considering the traf- silecampaignintheRedSea 20Laem Chabang9,460,000Anothertrendexpressedthe Canal in an average year.ficimpactoftheSuezCanal.and more recently the tariff war 21Kaohsiung9,228,417intheportchartistheriseofAs a result of the strife muchTheMoroccantransshipmentunleashed by the Trump Admin-22Beibu Gulf 9,015,200theIndianSubcontinentports.of the Asia-Europe containershiphub port of Tanger Med madeistration. For the most part, the 23New York/New Jersey8,697,767 ColomboinSriLankais26 th traffic has avoided the Suez Canala big jump and eclipsed the 10throughputatEuropesports 24Ho Chi MinhPort(Cat Lai) 8,400,000with7.78millionTEUs,withtransitandsubsequentlybeenmillionTEUmark[8.62mil- wasrelativelyflat.Rotterdam, 25Hamburg7,800,000theIndianportsofMundraatreroutedaround Africatoavoidlion in 2023 to 10.24 in 2024].Europeslargestportranked 26Colombo7,780,0007.0 million TEUs and Jawaha- beingtargetedbytheHouthis.However,anotherhubport11th, handled 13.8 million TEUs 27Tanjung Priok(Jakarta) 7,600,000(Adani Port) rlalNehru7.06millionTEUsThis has dampened some of theMarsaxlokkontheislandof(GROWTHcontinued on28Mundra 7,400,000 29Jawaharlal Nehru7,050,000ranked 28 thand 29 threspectively.growthintheregionsportsbutMalta didnt fare as well drop-page 42)30Rizhao6,710,000 31Lianyungang6,690,000 32Cai Mep-Thi Vai6,490,000 33Jeddah6,000,000 34Yingkou5,560,000 35Savannah5,545,557 36Santos5,485,000 37Valencia5,475,773 38Colon(4) - Atlantic side 5,385,134 39Dalian(Liaoning Port Group) 5,030,000 40Khalifa4,910,000 41Piraeus4,788,000 42Algeciras4,706,000 43Bremen/Bremerhaven4,445,000 44Tokyo4,400,000 45Manzanillo4,365,000 46Manila4,200,000 47Houston4,139,911 48Durban4,100,000 49Tanjung Perak(Surabaya) 4,050,000 50Balboa(5)Pacific side 4,013,685 51Gioia Tauro3,940,000 52Barcelona3,885,736 53Incheon3,560,000 54Virginia/Norfolk3,523,512 55Felixstowe3,500,000 56Cartagena3,500,000 57King Abdullah Port3,500,000 58Vancouver3,473,822 59Fuzhou3,400,000 60Melbourne3,396,000 61NW Seaport Alliance3,340,733 62Salalah3,304,735 63Chittagong3,276,00064Le Havre(Haropa) 3,122,000 65Dammam3,070,000 66Ambarli3,009,700 67Callao3,000,000 68Charleston2,971,430 69Bandar Abbas-Shahid Raja2,960,000 70Kobe2,900,000 71Marsaxlokk(Malta) 2,857,000 72Genoa2,821,000 73Oakland2,629,210 74Nagoya2,600,000 75Yokohama2,595,720 76Sydney(Botany) 2,500,000 77Kocaeli(Izmit) 2,322,100 78Kingston2,300,000 79Gdansk2,242,000 80Aliaga2,119,200 81London2,050,000 82Tekirdag2,032,700 83Osaka2,000,000 84Yangpu(Hainan) 2,000,000 85Southampton2,000,000 86Lazaro Cardenas1,987,978 87Sines1,909,731 88Mersin1,889,900 89Keelung1,649,898 90Taichung1,613,469 91Chennai1,590,000 92Montreal1,464,320 93Marseilles-Fos1,450,000 94Taipei1,439,806 95Jacksonville1,340,412 96Buenos Aires1,300,000 97Veracruz1,275,000 98La Spezia1,238,258 99Port of Baltimore1,022,913 100 San JuanNASee special notes on full chart.'