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although China remains the top source of 
inbound TEUs, the port’s tonnage leader 
was the US, as imports of American 
sourced liquid and dry bulk freight led the 
way in the diverse dual port 2025. 
Germany’s largest port is the Port 
of Hamburg. The port ranks 26th and has 
long counted China as its leading trade 
partner in 2025 recording 2.3 million 
TEUs. It remained that way. The US with 
510,000 TEUs was in the number two slot 
but business was off by 25.6%, as tariffs 
dampened demand. 
However, India and the Indian 
Sub-Continent (ISC) region is rapidly 
rising as an emerging trade partner with 
over a 49% increase in 2025 to 290,000 
TEUs. India’s neighboring Sri Lanka, 
also experienced a surge, increasing by 
over 22% to 172,000 TEUs. It is worth 
noting that the Port of Columbo, in Sri 
Lanka, posted a throughput of nearly 8.3 
million TEUs in 2025, ranking 28th and up 
from 6.9 million TEUs in 2023. 
The Port of Valenica, ranked 38th, 
located on the Mediterranean Sea, is 
Spain’s largest port handling almost 5.7 
million TEUs in 2025. Like many Euro-
pean ports, China was the top trading part-
ner, with over 550,000 TEUs in import, 
followed by the US, Italy and Algeria. 
The Port of Bremerhaven in Ger-
many, had a throughput of 4.9 million 
TEUs ranking 41st on the list. The larg-
est trade partner in TEUs for the Port 
of Bremerhaven was China and the US 
was second. The US has a long-stand-
ing trans-Atlantic business with Bremer/
Bremerhaven, and the connection is still 
an important link. 
Like Valencia, the French port of Le 
Havre (Haropa) is also located on the 
Mediterranean Sea. Le Havre, ranked 65 
on the list, had a throughput of 3.2 million 
TEUs in 2025 — and has for the most part 
annually posted around 3 million TEUs in 
recent years. 
The Span of Mediterranean 
Container Ports
The throughputs for container ports 
in the Mediterranean and Middle East 
have been adversely impacted by the 
ongoing conflict in the Middle East along 
with other geo-pollical issues — however 
while the throughput numbers in 2026 
have plummeted for some ports as they 
are more directly impacted —the volumes 
in 2025 were relatively strong.
As mentioned above the Spanish port 
of Valencia handled nearly 5.7 million 
TEUs while Barcelona ranked 56th and 
had a throughput of 3.7 million TEUs. 
Algeciras, (ranked 43rd) located on the 
Straits of Gibraltar, notched a throughput 
of 4.74 million TEUs in 2025. However, 
the most impressive throughput in was 
the North African hub port of Tanger Med 
located in Morocco at the entrance to the 
Strait of Gibraltar which ranked 16th and 
handled over 11 million TEUs — up from 
around 7.6 million in 2022. 
Italy’s transshipment hub the Port of 
Gioia Tauro also benefits from its Med 
location handling around 4.5 million 
TEUs in 2025 and with rail connections 
links the port to Northern Europe, Italy’s 
northern port of Genoa. 
The quintessential Mediterranean 
hub port is the island of Malta’s Marsax-
lokk container port. In 2025 the port han-
dled nearly 2.9 million TEUs and ranked 
70th in the world. Piraeus, another Med 
hub port ranked 52 had a throughput of 
nearly 4 million TEUs in ’25, but that is 
significantly off its peak of 4.94 million 
Enstructure acquires LOGISTEC’s 
marine terminal operations
A mega-deal creates a mega-terminal group.
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By AJOT Staff
In the marine terminal business, par-
ticularly in North America, mega-deals 
don’t come along very often. And when a 
mega-deal happens, it is a surprise.
So, on June 15th, when Enstructure, 
a Wellesley, Massachusetts-based termi-
nal operator announced the acquisition of 
LOGISTEC, a Montreal, Quebec-based-ter-
minal company — it was a surprise and rep-
resented one of the biggest North America 
marine terminal deals in decades. 
Although the details of the transac-
tion weren’t released, the merging of the 
operations of the two terminal operators 
will create one of the largest and most 
comprehensive terminal enterprises in 
North America. And it comes at a time, 
when the value of logistics assets in North 
America is ascending to meet demands of 
the supply chain.  
LOGISTEC has since its founding by 
Roger Paquin in 1952 grown to be one of 
the largest multi-purpose terminal com-
panies in North America, with a portfolio 
of facilities that includes bulk, breakbulk 
and container operations and even trans-
portation services in the Arctic. The ter-
minal operator has facilities located in 
62 ports and 84 terminals across the US 
and Canada and is majority owned by 
New York-based private equity firm, Blue 
Wolf Capital Partners LLC (Blue Wolf). 
Following the transaction, Blue Wolf will 
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