World - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in World was 758,734,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 810,577,500 in 2019 and a minimum value of 224,774,500 in 2000.

Definition: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Source: UNCTAD (http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx)

See also:

Year Value
2000 224,774,500
2001 235,075,500
2002 263,456,500
2003 296,996,100
2004 338,433,800
2005 376,268,200
2006 416,752,000
2007 489,818,300
2008 516,152,300
2009 472,175,100
2010 544,870,600
2011 585,895,000
2012 619,551,700
2013 650,367,200
2014 681,978,600
2015 694,479,800
2016 704,861,900
2017 758,610,900
2018 796,179,800
2019 810,577,500
2020 758,734,000

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation