Singapore retained its title as the world’s busiest port last year, with container cargo handled by its terminals reaching 25.87 million TEUs.

But there was little daylight between Singapore and second-placed Shanghaiy, which saw 25 million TEUs crossing its busy wharves.

Hong Kong retained its place as third busiest port handling 20.92 million TEUs, Shenzhen was next with 18.25 million TEUs and Busan fifth with 11.19 million boxes.

The port of Guangzhou came sixth with 11.3 million TEUs, tailed by Dubaiy with 11.15 million TEUs, according to a report by the Organisation of Asia Pacific News Agencies (OANA).

With the exception of Guangzhouy, the world’s 10 biggest ports logged negative growth in the aftermath of the global economic recession last year.

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• Singapore container sales by 18%, 2.33 m TUEs in January this year

    In January 2010 Singapore port handled 2.33 million TEUs, a 18-percent rise in container turnover from the same period last year, and 2% up over December 2009, the Port Authority provisional data said. According to the report freight traffic via the port of Singapore in January increased by 8% as

• Shanghai can be seen falling 14%, in TEUs

     Shanghai’s container throughput this year may drop 14 percent from 2008 to around 24 million TEUs according to preliminary estimates, the Shanghaiy Daily reported. The city’s container traffic is expected to be lower than last year’s 28 million TEUs, Wang Hongquan, vice director of Shanghai Transport and Port Authority, said. Shanghaiy’s

• Singapore box numbers by 2.5% in August

     Container throughput continued to rise by 2.5 percent month-on-month to 2.28 million TEUs last month in Singapore, although the slower rate of increase from the 5.6 percent rise the preceding month seems to suggest that the sector’s recovery is reaching a plateau, the Shipping Times reported. And this was moreover still

• Container volume in July referring to the end of deceleration

    Container throughput at the Port of Singapore last month suggests that the slowdown in trade seems to be bottoming out and perhaps easing, Maritime and Port Authority figures show. Container throughput rose 5.6 per cent month-on-month in July to 2.22 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), from 2.1 million TEUs in June. However,

• Jurong Port is September Throughput

    JURONG Port said yesterday its container throughput in September fell 32.63 per cent to 64,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), from 95,000 TEUs a year earlier. But September’s figure was about 8.5 per cent higher than that in August, when the port handled 59,000 TEUs. August’s throughput was down 33 per cent

• November in Singapore container throughput up 1.7%

    Singapore port’s container throughput has finally turned into positive year-on-year figures, posting a 1.7 per cent rise to 2.33 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in November from 2.29 million TEUs in the previous corresponding period. However this is probably due less to an actual improvement in volumes than the fact

• Singapore October throughput up 7.9% to 2.31 million TEUs

    The port of Singapore’s October container throughput rose 7.9 percent month-on-month to 2.31 million TEUs after a 5.8 percent dip in September, suggesting the slow uptick in the container sector is managing to hold, Business Times Singapore reported. At dominant port operator PSA, a 7.7 per ent month-on-month rise to

• Shanghai port traffic expected to fall 14% in 2009

    Shanghai’s container throughput this year may drop 14 percent from 2008, a government official said yesterday. The city’s container throughput in 2009 will be about 24 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) according to a preliminary estimate by the port authority, lower than last year’s 28 million TEUs, Wang Hongquan,

• China port throughput slips 2.6% in October

     China’s ports saw a 2.6 percent year-on-year decrease in container traffic in October, handling 10.78 million TEUs, according to Transport Ministry date, reported All data Processing. Container traffic at sea ports totalled 9.67 million TEUs, slipping 2.7 percent on the year. The port of Shanghai recorded the biggest volume but also the

• South Korean ports handle more containers in October

     The volume of containers handled at South Korea’s seaports rose 4.9 percent last month, bolstered by rebounding economic activity, Yonhap English News reported. According to the report by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, containers processed at local seaports amounted to 1.49 million TEUs last month compared with

• Port Klang container volume down

     Container traffic through Port Klang, the country’s busiest container port, fell by 8.3 per cent last year, as the global economic downturn continues to hurt the country’s exports, Business Times reported. The port handled 7.3 million TEUs, compared with 7.9 million TEUs in 2008. In terms of tonnage handled, traffic through

• High increase in traffic in Phnom Penh next port

     Shipments through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port were up for the fourth straight month in October, Xinhua reported. The port handled 3,682 TEUs last month, 8.61 percent more than the 3,390 TEUs handled in October 2008. Container throughput grew 22.7 percent year on year in September to 4,484 TEUs, and 22.65 percent

• Large ships, the U.S. East Coast

     ?? Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will deploy several ships of about 8,000 TEUs in its trans-Suez Golden Gate Service (GGS) between Asia and the U.S

• Large ships, the U.S. East Coast

     ?? Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will deploy several ships of about 8,000 TEUs in its trans-Suez Golden Gate Service (GGS) between Asia and the U.S

• If 21 percent of Hamburg cargo

    The port of Hamburg lost significant market share to close rivals Rotterdam and Antwerp last year as cargo traffic crashed more than 21 percent from 2008 and container volume shrunk by even more. But Germany’s biggest port said traffic started to grow in the final quarter of the year and