A seaports are made for allowing ships to load and unload cargo without coming to seashore. It provide services for handling and storing merchandize. Offices of shipping companies, Ship building and repairing are commonly located near ports for services to clients. It is essential requirement of country trade. There are numerous giant popular seaports in the world. Seaports provide foundation for economic activities of countries and allow trader to carry our trade with whole world economically. The twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) is unit often used to measure handling capacity of container ships and ports but there is no standard way of evaluating port performance and traffic. Freight tons (volume measurement), revenue tons and metric tons (weight) are measuring unit commonly used by port of different countries . All units are converted (where necessary) to metric tons for data comparison. On comparison of this unit of calculation, we have ranked top 10 biggest seaports in the world. Most of these big sea ports located in Asia continent mostly in China .
Remember, Continuous modification of port may affect our list of largest marine ports in the world. Development taking place in every sector of world specially seaports are becoming more advance in order to manage cargo transportation economically and spreading its commercial network for increasing trade activities. In marine port’s sector, china is leading the whole world. This clearly shows competitive spirit of the Asian super-power and can be noticed in our below list.
Top Ten Largest Seaport in the World
| Ranking | Name | Country | Total Cargo(Metric Ton)in 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai | China | 650,000,000 |
| 2 | Ningbo-Zhoushan | China | 627,000,000 |
| 3 | Singapore | Singapore | 463,074,600 |
| 4 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 429,900,000 |
| 5 | Tianjin | China | 408,000,000 |
| 6 | Guangzhou | China | 400,000,000 |
| 7 | Qingdao | China | 350,100,000 |
| 8 | Dalian | China | 300,800,000 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | China | 267,815,000 |
| 10 | Busan | South Korea | 241,132,000 |
