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In the world’s busiest container port rankings, Chinese ports held seven places of the top 10 in 2009. The top three ? Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong ? remained unchanged. Qingdao rose from 10th to ninth on the list, while Rotterdam went down from ninth to 10th.
As for the top three in 2009, Singapore won first place, handling 25.866 million TEUs (down 13.5 percent from 2008); Shanghai, second, 25.002 million TEUs (down 10.7 percent) and Hong Kong, third, 20.925 TEUs (down 14.6 percent).
Ranked fourth place was Shenzhen, which processed 18.25 million TEUs (down 14.78 percent), which was followed by Busan, 11.98 million TEUs (down 11 percent).
