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IS.SHP.GOOD.TU · TEU

Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Lithuania, Ukraine. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.

Latest value, United Kingdom
9.62 m TEU2024
Period covered
2010 - 202415 annual values
Highest of the compared countries
299.7 m TEUChina, 2024
Lowest of the compared countries
1.02 m TEUUkraine, 2021

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

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Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China299.7 m TEU2024
  • United States59.71 m TEU2024
  • Spain18.11 m TEU2024
  • Netherlands14.52 m TEU2024
  • Italy11.93 m TEU2024
  • United Kingdom9.62 m TEU2024
  • Lithuania1.07 m TEU2024
  • Ukraine1.02 m TEU2021

Year by year values

Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.

Annual values by country
United KingdomItalySpainNetherlandsUnited StatesChinaLithuaniaUkraine
20249.62 m TEU11.93 m TEU18.11 m TEU14.52 m TEU59.71 m TEU299.7 m TEU1.07 m TEU
20239.09 m TEU11.3 m TEU16.38 m TEU14.11 m TEU54.62 m TEU278.76 m TEU1.05 m TEU
20229.75 m TEU11.58 m TEU17.16 m TEU14.93 m TEU61.19 m TEU268.79 m TEU1.05 m TEU
202110.29 m TEU11.3 m TEU17.71 m TEU15.78 m TEU60.87 m TEU256.95 m TEU666,775 TEU1.02 m TEU
20209.73 m TEU10.7 m TEU16.75 m TEU14.76 m TEU53.06 m TEU240.48 m TEU639,006 TEU1.05 m TEU
201910.51 m TEU10.79 m TEU17.46 m TEU15.2 m TEU54.24 m TEU237.57 m TEU703,000 TEU1.01 m TEU
201810.32 m TEU10.62 m TEU17.17 m TEU14.8 m TEU52.99 m TEU229.13 m TEU749,066 TEU845,152 TEU
201710.24 m TEU10.67 m TEU15.93 m TEU13.99 m TEU50.2 m TEU218.71 m TEU472,000 TEU723,575 TEU
201610.2 m TEU10.59 m TEU15.07 m TEU12.61 m TEU46.94 m TEU202.83 m TEU443,000 TEU680,623 TEU
20159.76 m TEU10.21 m TEU14.29 m TEU12.4 m TEU46.5 m TEU195.51 m TEU392,700 TEU480,837 TEU
20149.51 m TEU10.26 m TEU14.21 m TEU12.46 m TEU44.64 m TEU187.29 m TEU450,428 TEU670,342 TEU
20138.25 m TEU10.12 m TEU13.9 m TEU11.75 m TEU42.84 m TEU176.61 m TEU402,535 TEU787,881 TEU
20127.98 m TEU9.67 m TEU14.07 m TEU12.03 m TEU41.88 m TEU165.94 m TEU381,278 TEU720,301 TEU
20118.14 m TEU9.53 m TEU13.9 m TEU12.02 m TEU40.81 m TEU151.8 m TEU382,185 TEU799,060 TEU
20108.22 m TEU9.76 m TEU12.5 m TEU11.33 m TEU40.27 m TEU136.04 m TEU294,954 TEU690,260 TEU

World Bank definition

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes, and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

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