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Düsseldorf Hamburg and Amsterdam are among the largest ports in Europe. In comparison to container ports in Asia, however, they are above all – small. This is shown by statistics from the German traffic newspaper (DVZ), which specializes in logistics issues.
The 2020 figures were collected in March 2021. The handling volume of the respective container port in million TEU was used for the 2021 ranking. TEU stands for Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, a standard container with a size of 20 feet, which corresponds to a length of 6.058 meters in the metric system. It is noticeable that a very large number of large container ports from one country in particular appear in this ranking.
These are the eleven largest container ports in the world in 2021
11th place: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam