Independent rankings built from public data — every figure traceable to the body that published it.
Report year 2014Data year 2014
Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units)Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
15 reference years (2010–2024), covering 103 to 166 countries, from UNCTAD via the World Bank’s indicator API (IS.SHP.GOOD.TU). Containers moving through a country’s ports in a year, in twenty-foot equivalent units. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, so this indicator carries no good/bad colouring and does not feed its topics’ rankings — it is charted on them, not scored by them. The figure is an absolute total, so the top of the table is essentially the largest trading economies and the great transhipment hubs, and a landlocked country reads zero for reasons of geography. The Liner Shipping Connectivity Index beside it is the one that measures how WELL connected a country is, independently of its size — the two belong together. ⚠ These are not 15 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score LARGEST FIRST, and it is a SIZE ORDER rather than a league table: this measure has no better end, so position 1 names the country with the biggest figure and says nothing about how that country is doing. The change arrows stay grey for the same reason, and the indicator is still left out of the Country Index.
Container Port Traffic 2014 — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Cite as: UN Trade and Development. UNCTADstat. Geneva: UNCTAD.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO
Containers moving through a country's ports in a year, counted in twenty-foot equivalent units — from UNCTAD, served through the World Bank's indicator API (IS.SHP.GOOD.TU). ⚠ An ABSOLUTE total, so the top of the table is essentially the largest trading economies and the great transhipment hubs. The Liner Shipping Connectivity Index beside it is the one that measures how WELL connected a country is, independently of its size. UNCTAD does not rank countries on this, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
166 rows × 3 columns · imported from the publisher’s published data file on
Select any column heading to sort by it; select it again to reverse.
| Country | ISO Code | Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units) |
|---|---|---|
| China | CHN | 187,291,913 |
| United States | USA | 44,635,035 |
| Singapore | SGP | 33,869,300 |
| Korea, Rep. | KOR | 24,798,794 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 22,366,426 |
| Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG | 22,300,000 |
| Japan | JPN | 21,662,814 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 20,186,679 |
| Germany | DEU | 15,842,604 |
| Spain | ESP | 14,205,033 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 12,456,588 |
| India | IND | 11,652,174 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 11,005,059 |
| Italy | ITA | 10,255,753 |
| Belgium | BEL | 9,895,013 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 9,509,757 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 9,473,429 |
| Brazil | BRA | 9,436,275 |
| Thailand | THA | 8,664,572 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 8,351,069 |
| Australia | AUS | 7,442,016 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 6,979,807 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 6,860,353 |
| Panama | PAN | 6,774,064 |
| Philippines | PHL | 6,216,752 |
| Canada | CAN | 5,447,571 |
| Mexico | MEX | 5,071,720 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 4,993,427 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 4,907,901 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 4,588,327 |
| France | FRA | 4,424,205 |
| Morocco | MAR | 4,076,488 |
| Chile | CHL | 3,957,585 |
| Greece | GRC | 3,954,322 |
| Colombia | COL | 3,409,344 |
| Oman | OMN | 3,364,663 |
| Malta | MLT | 2,924,283 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 2,751,167 |
| Portugal | PRT | 2,689,296 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 2,447,600 |
| Israel | ISR | 2,446,000 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 2,381,922 |
| Peru | PER | 2,241,216 |
| Poland | POL | 2,139,616 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 1,867,409 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 1,782,007 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 1,772,533 |
| Argentina | ARG | 1,738,744 |
| Algeria | DZA | 1,660,660 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 1,638,113 |
| Sweden | SWE | 1,471,086 |
| Bahamas, The | BHS | 1,465,283 |
| Finland | FIN | 1,426,630 |
| Puerto Rico (US) | PRI | 1,319,961 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 1,298,579 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 1,265,132 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 1,263,476 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 1,210,413 |
| Angola | AGO | 1,141,081 |
| Kenya | KEN | 1,012,002 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 991,767 |
| Venezuela, RB | VEN | 933,380 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 904,049 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 864,027 |
| Ghana | GHA | 793,582 |
| Ireland | IRL | 793,102 |
| Jordan | JOR | 781,291 |
| Uruguay | URY | 775,651 |
| Denmark | DNK | 750,598 |
| Norway | NOR | 728,372 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 716,926 |
| Honduras | HND | 682,857 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 670,342 |
| Romania | ROU | 668,033 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 647,033 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 619,892 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 612,551 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 593,264 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 466,412 |
| Qatar | QAT | 461,863 |
| Senegal | SEN | 456,000 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 450,428 |
| Georgia | GEO | 446,972 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 442,941 |
| Sudan | SDN | 434,445 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 403,001 |
| Latvia | LVA | 392,126 |
| Togo | TGO | 380,798 |
| Benin | BEN | 344,850 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 333,555 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 330,000 |
| Fiji | FJI | 329,097 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 307,878 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 296,035 |
| Austria | AUT | 285,900 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 277,200 |
| Iceland | ISL | 261,732 |
| Estonia | EST | 261,069 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 254,520 |
| Namibia | NAM | 253,052 |
| Cuba | CUB | 230,836 |
| Croatia | HRV | 211,910 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 203,915 |
| Gabon | GAB | 197,998 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 195,456 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 179,577 |
| Haiti | HTI | 175,307 |
| Libya | LBY | 172,340 |
| Guam | GUM | 161,337 |
| Guinea | GIN | 160,160 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 150,697 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 141,788 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 139,200 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 133,961 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 116,312 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 113,000 |
| Suriname | SUR | 108,703 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 106,168 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 104,482 |
| Albania | ALB | 99,350 |
| Curacao | CUW | 89,193 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 88,125 |
| Maldives | MDV | 83,777 |
| Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | SXM | 82,643 |
| Liberia | LBR | 79,000 |
| Barbados | BRB | 78,432 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 75,922 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 73,265 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 72,464 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 70,000 |
| French Polynesia | PYF | 69,296 |
| Tonga | TON | 69,196 |
| Comoros | COM | 68,895 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 65,623 |
| American Samoa | ASM | 57,025 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 54,112 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 51,822 |
| Guyana | GUY | 48,735 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 47,721 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 46,720 |
| Belize | BLZ | 43,593 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | MNP | 42,009 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 41,521 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 39,186 |
| Faroe Islands | FRO | 35,753 |
| Aruba | ABW | 29,628 |
| Samoa | WSM | 28,587 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 27,154 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 26,168 |
| Palau | PLW | 23,960 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 22,998 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 22,527 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 16,737 |
| Grenada | GRD | 16,100 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 14,443 |
| Tuvalu | TUV | 13,766 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 12,909 |
| Gibraltar | GIB | 10,848 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 10,540 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 10,000 |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | FSM | 9,270 |
| Naoero | NRU | 8,530 |
| Dominica | DMA | 7,744 |
| Greenland | GRL | 4,536 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 4,437 |
| Moldova | MDA | 473 |