Giant Shanghai container port in China has topped Lloyd's List rankings for 13 years in a row
Seven out of 10 of ports busiest in the world are in China, according to the classification One Hundred Ports 2023 from the British newspaper Lloyd's List, based on the total volume of containers (Twenty Feet Equivalent Units – TEUs, in its acronym in English) handled by each port in 2022. The only Brazilian on the list of 100 ports is Port of Santos, which is in 40th place.
The giant container port of Shanghai, in China, topped the Lloyd's List rankings for the 13th year in a row. In 2022, the complex handled 47.3 million TEUs during 2022, getting closer and closer to the 50 million TEUs mark. According to the publication, the port's position is practically unreachable.
In second place is the port of Singapore, which handled around 37.3 million TEUs that year, around 10 million less than first place. Next in third place is the Ningbo-Zhoushan port, also in China. In 2022, the port handled around 33.35 million TEUs.
After him, up to sixth place, all are Chinese: Shenzhen, Qingdao and Guangzhou. In seventh place is Busan, in South Korea, followed by two more Chinese in eighth and ninth place, Tianjin and Hong Kong, respectively. The Asian predominance ends in tenth place, occupied by Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
See the ranking of the 10 busiest ports in the world in 2022
China has seven of the 10 busiest ports in the world
Port of Santos
The only Brazilian on the list is Port of Santos, the 40th busiest port in the world in 2022, according to the newspaper's classification. That year, the port handled 4.98 million TEUs, an increase of 3.2% compared to the previous year.
The Port of Santos is the main Brazilian port in terms of cargo handled, historically responsible for at least 25% of Brazilian foreign trade. It is also the largest port complex in Latin America and handles a wide variety of national and international cargo.
