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Table 1-20
Top 10 U.S. Container Ports (thousands of TEUs) and Channel Depth (in feet)

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Port	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Authorized channel	Maintained channel
Los Angeles, CA	1,639	1,627	1,786	1,849	1,873	2,085	2,293	2,552	3,228	3,425	70	60
Long Beach, CA	1,356	1,543	1,939	2,137	2,357	2,673	2,852	3,048	3,204	3,199	76	63
New York, NY	1,294	1,306	1,404	1,537	1,533	1,738	1,884	2,027	2,200	2,332	45	40
Charleston, SC	564	579	655	758	801	955	1,035	1,170	1,246	1,156	45	40
Oakland, CA	746	772	879	919	803	843	902	915	989	960	50	42
Seattle, WA	743	781	967	993	939	953	976	962	960	824	34	52
Norfolk,VA	519	519	570	647	681	770	793	829	850	885	55	50
Houston, TX	368	392	419	489	538	609	657	714	733	778	45	40
Savannah, GA	387	406	418	445	456	529	558	624	720	813	48	42
Miami, FL	418	469	497	497	505	624	602	618	684	717	42	42
Total top 10 ports	8,035	8,394	9,534	10,271	10,486	11,779	12,552	13,458	14,814	15,088
Percent of all ports	76%	69%	72%	77%	71%	79%	81%	81%	83%	83%
Total all ports	10,583	12,238	13,173	13,328	14,794	14,882	15,556	16,564	17,938	18,081

KEY: TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit.

SOURCE: Journal of Commerce, Port Import/Export Reporting Service, various container data files and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Data Center, channel depth data, personal commuication June 2001.

Container trade has become increasingly concentrated. The top 10 container ports handled 83 percent of U.S. container trade for the last 2 years, compared to 76 percent in 1992.

Three of the top five container ports in the United States are on the west coast.

Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, had the largest absolute growth in container traffic between 1995 and 2000 (measured in TEUs), rising 75 percent and 50 percent respectively.

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Table 1-20 Top 10 U.S. Container Ports (thousands of TEUs) and Channel Depth (in feet)

Table 1-20
Top 10 U.S. Container Ports (thousands of TEUs) and Channel Depth (in feet)