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Shanghai handled 36.5 million TEUs, which improved 3% from the previous year. Thanks to increases in containers moved on the Yangtze River route and in feeder services, Shanghai became the world’s busiest container port for the sixth consecutive year. Owing to the slowdown in the Chinese economy and other factors, however, freight movement to and from the Chinese port was weaker, lowering the year-on-year increase from the 5% marked in 2014.
Ranked second was Singapore, but container lifting at the Southeast Asian port declined 8.7% to 30.9 million TEUs, resulting from sluggishness in container movement between Asia and Europe, among other reasons.
The Port of Shenzhen in China processed the third greatest volume of containers, which rose 1% to 24.21 million TEUs. The growth rate was smaller than a year earlier, when it was 3.3%.
Containers grew 6% to total 26.26 million TEUs at Ningbo-Zhoushan, another Chinese port. Exceeding the 20-milllion-TEU line for the first time, the total helped it move up by a rank from fifth to fourth place.
In contrast, container throughput at Hong Kong plunged 9.5% to 20.114 million TEUs, suffering a year-on-year decrease for four years in a row and making the port go down from fourth to fifth place.
