Table 14,,,,,
Top 25 World Port Calls by Container Vessels: 2000,,,,,
Rank by capacity,Port,Calls,"Capacity
(thousands of dwt)","Average vessel
size per call
(dwt)",Rank by average vessel size
1,Hong Kong,"12,462","412,264"," 33,082 ",12
2,Singapore,"11,286","354,686"," 31,427 ",15
3,"Kaohsiung, Taiwan","5,808","199,284"," 34,312 ",9
4,"Busan, South Korea","5,217","164,795"," 31,588 ",14
5,"Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA","2,955","124,281"," 42,058 ",4
6,"Kobe, Japan","3,325","116,447"," 35,022 ",8
7,"Rotterdam, The Netherlands","2,528","110,192"," 43,589 ",1
8,"Port Klang, Malaysia","3,950","109,883"," 27,818 ",20
9,"Yokohama, Japan","3,298","103,399"," 31,352 ",16
10,"Tokyo, Japan","2,987","102,198"," 34,214 ",10
11,"Keelung, Taiwan","4,344","94,522"," 21,759 ",23
12,"Nagoya, Japan","2,699","91,331"," 33,839 ",11
13,"New York, NY/NJ","2,172","87,463"," 40,268 ",6
14,"San Francisco, CA1 ","1,936","82,958"," 42,850 ",2
15,"Le Havre, France","2,013","82,329"," 40,899 ",5
16,"Antwerp, Belgium","2,111","76,312"," 36,150 ",7
17,"Hamburg, Germany","1,745","74,067"," 42,445 ",3
18,"Osaka, Japan","2,030","57,659"," 28,403 ",17
19,"Laem Chabang, Thailand","2,600","49,820"," 19,162 ",24
20,"Shanghai, China","1,763","47,449"," 26,914 ",22
21,"Santos, Brazil","1,547","42,749"," 27,633 ",21
22,"Taichung, Taiwan","1,998","33,604"," 16,819 ",25
23,"Durban, South Africa","1,043","29,088"," 27,889 ",19
24,"Houston, TX",614,"19,799"," 32,246 ",13
25,"New Orleans, LA",388,"10,853"," 27,972 ",18
,All other ports,"97,947","2,728,640"," 27,858 ",
,Top 25 ports,"82,819","2,677,433"," 32,329 ",
,"Top 25, % of total", 45.8 , 49.5 ,,
,"Total, all ports","180,766","5,406,073"," 29,906 ",
1 Includes the ports of San Francisco and Oakland,,,,,,,,,,,,
KEY: dwt = deadweight tons.,,,,,,,,,,,,
"NOTES: Origial selection of ports was based on the total number of calls to that port by all vessel types.  Of this set of ports, rankings were then determined by the average container vessel size.  Data include oceangoing vessels of 1,000 gross tons and above. Capacity = dwt multiplied by calls.  Port geography in this table is defined by Lloyd's Maritime Information Services, and differs from that in tables 10 and 11 where ""U.S. ports"" are based on U.S. Customs designations.",,,,,,,,,,,,
"SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration; based on Lloyd's Maritime Information Services, Vessel Movements, available at http://www.marad.dot.gov/Marad_Statistics/PortCalls_World.htm, as of Mar. 28, 2002.",,,,,,,,,,,,
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