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History. Shenzhen's port system is currently the third largest port in China and one of the busiest container ports in the world, seeing traffic of 30,036,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2022. [ 3] It was formerly the second largest port in China; however, it fell behind the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan and has not recovered its position ...
OOCL was founded by C. Y. Tung in 1947 as the Orient Overseas Line. In 1969, OOL was the first Asian -based shipping line to transport containerized cargo across the Pacific. Consequently, the company was renamed Orient Overseas Container Line. In those days its Victory-class vessels could carry 300 TEU, a far cry from today's post-Panamax vessels.
China has 34 major ports and more than 2000 minor ports. The former are mostly sea ports (except for ports such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Jiujiang along the Yangtze and Guangzhou in the Pearl River delta) opening up to the Yellow Sea (Bo Hai), Taiwan Strait, Pearl River and South China Sea while the latter comprise ports that lie along the major and minor rivers of China. [1]
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
Subsidiary G-Marine Service Co., Ltd., [7] operator of the Roll-on/Roll-off car carrier Golden Ray was instructed to revise its safety management system to verify and audit stability calculations before leaving port, and crew adherence to the watertight door closure entry on departure, after the Golden Ray capsized in the Port of Brunswick, Georgia (U.S. state) in calm weather because ...
China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd ( CIMC; Chinese: 中集集团) is a Chinese company principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment, such as containers, road transport vehicles and airport ground-handling equipment. China International Marine Containers was a constituent of SZSE 100 Index, but ...
Shenzhen Bay Port ( Chinese: 深圳湾口岸) is a juxtaposed border crossing and a port of entry and exit between mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, located geographically in Dongjiaotou, Shekou, which lies on the southwestern corner of the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province . The port of entry and exit ...
Port of Singapore. The top 10 busiest container ports by year (2004–2023) This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers ), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port.