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 1 Port of Shanghai
Location: Shanghai, China
It has a capacity of handling cargo of about
744 million tonnes, which allows efficient
management of 32.5 million containers of
dimension equal to standard TEUs of
containers simultaneously.
It is stretched at an area of 3,619 km² at the
delta or convergence of Yangtze River.

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 2 Port of Singapore
Location: Singapore
The cargo handling capacity of the Port of
Singapore is about 537.6 million tonnes.
Annually on a total, about 140000 vessels are
received by this port.

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 3 Port of Tianjin
Location: Tianjin, China
The cargo handling capacity of this port is such
that it can handle cargo of about 476 million
tonnes at a time, with a low value of a number
of standard TEUs dimension containers of 12.3
million containers can be transported.
Spread to combined area of land and water of
131 km² and 336 km² respectively

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 4 Port of Guangzhou
Location: China
The port of Guangzhou can handle cargo of even
more than 460 million tonnes, this cargo
handling capacity ranks it at number four in the
top-ranking order.
The largest port in Southern China, the
Guangzhou port enjoys connectivity with more
than 300 ports in almost 100 countries.

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 5 Port of Ningbo
Location: Ningbo-Zhoushan, China
It a handling capacity of more than 453 million
tonnes of cargo is the next in the order of
biggest ports around the globe with 16.83
million TEUs value.
It comprises of 309 berths which interconnect a
huge number of ports (about 600 ports in all)
among 100 countries.

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 6 Port of Rotterdam
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
It safely handles 441.5 million tonnes of cargo.
The approximate stretch of this port figures as
12426 hectares to a 42 kilometres length.
Port of Rotterdam is the deepest port in north-
western Europe and allows deep docking of
ships.

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 7 Port of Suzhou
Location: China
After reaching cargo handling capacity of 428
million tonnes, the Port of Suzhou became the
seventh biggest port throughout the world.
These port areas comprise of 224 berths in all
and transact with more than hundreds of
national as well as international shipping routes.

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 8 Port of Qingdao
Location: China
This port is managed by a state port group
named Qingdao City Port Group and is self-
sufficient in handling cargo of about 400 million
tonnes or even more.
This port interconnects about 130 countries
around the globe through a network of about
450 ports.

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