ISL Monthly Container Port Monitor

ISL Monthly Container Port Monitor
Executive Summary - Development of the world’s top container ports by
region
During the fourth quarter of 2005, the TEU traffic of the top world ports included in the ISL traffic analysis stood at 62.1 mill TEU.
Compared with the previous quarter this is an increase of 2.1 per cent. Looking at the same quarter last year, traffic increased by
12.9 per cent, whereby the regional growth patterns show different developments.
America
Looking at North American ports, TEU traffic increased by 6.1 per cent to 9.7 million TEU, comparing results for the fourth
quarter of 2005 and 2004. In comparison to the third quarter of 2005, TEU traffic increased by 2.1 per cent. This is again the
highest growth compared with all regions. The ports at the American Pacific coast are benefiting from the stable growth in China.
Compared with the same quarter of 2004, traffic growth of the North American Atlantic coast ports was higher than on the Pacific
coast (5.3 per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively). The highest increases of all North American ports compared with the fourth
quarter of 2004 showed the ports of Savannah and Virginia with 16.7 per cent and 10.0 per cent respectively.
Asia
The Chinese Mainland ports together had a yearly container traffic of about 58 mill TEU (2005). Compared with the fourth
quarter of 2004, all Asian ports included here showed a traffic growth of 1.2 per cent. Only the Guangzhou, Incheon, Laem
Chabang and the port of Nagoya realised remarkable growth rates. Highest increases were attributable to the ports of
Guangzhou (+23.7 per cent), Incheon (+ 22.1 per cent), and Nagoy (+ 9.8 per cent). However, it is remarkable that the container
traffic of the Chinese ports during the past two quarters (except of the ports of Shenzhen and Ningbo) slowed down to an
increase of less than ten per cent.
Europe
Compared with their American and Asian competitors, the European ports grew modest. Compared with the fourth quarter of last
year their TEU traffic increased by 1.0 per cent. But growth tendencies are not equal for all ports. Looking at the North Range,
Hamburg and Antwerp showed the best results compared with the fourth quarter of last year. This two ports realised a traffic
increase of 17.9 and 10.3 per cent respectively. Rotterdam’s traffic increased of 6.9 per cent and Bremen/Bremerhaven of only
3.5 per cent. TEU traffic of the fifth ranking port in the North Range, the port of Le Havre, decreased by 10.0 per cent. All in all,
the North Range ports increased their container traffic up to 8.5 mill TEU equal to a growth rate of 8.6 per cent compared with
the same quarter in 2004.
During the same period, container traffic of the top Mediterranean ports increased by only 2.2 per cent. The ports of Gioia Tauro
and Piraeus mainly determine this stagnation. The port of Piraeus showed an increase of 13.1 per cent comparing the fourth
quarters of 2004 and 2005. It seems, that the port is loosing remarkable TEU volumes to its new competetitors in Egypt. The
ports of Gioia Tauro (-8.6 per cent) showed a traffic decrease for the second consecutive year. With an increase of 21.6 per cent
compared to last years figures, the port of Valencia showed the best performance of all Mediterranean sea ports
Quarterly container port traffic by continent September 2001 – December 2005
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ISL Monthly Container Port Monitor
Executive summary - Quarterly traffic results of the ports analysed in the
"Monthly Container Port Monitor" up to December 2005
ranking: ranking:
change of TEU
4q-2005
% change of TEU over the same
TEU TEU
over last quarter
quarter of previous year
in 4q-2005 in 3q-2005 Port Country in 1000 in % 1q-`05 2q-`05 3q-`05 4q-`05
10 10
American ports
Los Angeles US 6.5 0.3 -2.4 -0.4 3.5 7.9
11 11 Long Beach US -41.6 -2.3 29.2 19.7 16.4 3.9
19 20 New York/ New Jersey US 9.6 1.1 8.7 -2.4 5.2 6.5
27 25 Santos Brazil -29.8 -4.9 26.6 17.6 20.1 18.9
26 27 Oakland US -6.2 -1.0 20.0 14.5 9.5 3.4
30 30 Tacoma US -25.1 -4.4 13.6 14.8 22.2 9.6
31 31 Seattle US -29.3 -5.3 39.8 17.4 18.7 -2.4
36 33 Charleston US -62.8 -11.7 11.7 13.4 10.6 -3.1
32 35 Port of Virginia US 19.6 3.9 10.8 10.5 7.1 10.0
34 36 Savannah US 7.4 1.5 11.5 11.6 16.1 16.7
37 37 Vancouver Canada -2.1 -0.5 -4.6 19.6 2.8 6.6
47 45 Montreal Canada -18.5 -5.6 12.2 1.1 0.0 -2.6
50 50 Montevideo Uruguay -4.3 -4.2 16.0 24.2 -1.6 -4.8
51 51 Sao Francisco Brazil 5.1 7.4 9.0 -11.6 -19.6 2.8
Total
Asian/Oceanian ports
-172 -1.8 12.7 9.8 10.0 6.1
2 1 Singapore Singapore -121 -2.0 14.2 9.3 6.4 5.8
1 2 Hong Kong China -48 -0.8 3.4 -3.4 -0.3 5.4
3 3 Shanghai China 25 0.5 29.1 26.6 21.0 21.4
4 4 Shenzhen China -161 -3.7 26.8 20.4 16.2 11.2
5 5 Busan South Korea 83 2.9 7.1 3.6 4.9 -1.2
7 6 Kaohsiung Taiwan -30 -1.3 0.1 -1.7 -4.3 -4.0
9 9 Dubai UAE -6 -0.3 26.5 18.6 18.6 12.2
13 13 Qingdao China 2 0.1 28.8 20.4 22.9 19.6
14 14 Ningbo China 2 0.1 25.9 29.4 33.2 28.8
16 15 Tianjin China -3 -0.2 22.5 26.1 28.6 25.9
15 16 Guangzhou China 274 23.7 38.6 51.1 38.4 42.7
17 17 Laem Chabang Thailand 63 6.7 7.3 8.3 1.1 7.2
20 19 Xiamen China -27 -3.0 16.5 14.6 16.3 18.9
23 23 Yokohama Japan -15 -2.0 4.0 -0.3 12.3 7.2
24 24 Nagoya Japan 61 9.8 5.5 21.0 7.5 9.5
28 26 Kobe Japan -38 -6.2 -1.4 6.5 2.5 -5.6
29 34 Keelung Taiwan 46 9.0 -1.7 -1.4 0.5 6.6
39 40 Gwangyang South Korea -1 -0.2 -15.6 -9.4 31.5 29.6
40 42 Sydney Australia 17 4.8 8.9 1.8 5.0 4.4
42 44 Bangkok Thailand 8 2.2 1.4 -1.4 1.0 3.1
45 46 Nhava Sheva India 0 0.0 5.9 6.1 6.4 10.9
46 47 Taichung Taiwan 16 5.4 -2.8 0.6 -4.2 1.1
44 48 Incheon South Korea 61 22.1 22.3 23.5 21.2 29.3
Total 208 0.5 13.8 11.0 10.6 10.4
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European ports
Rotterdam Netherlands 16 0.7 19.6 13.0 10.6 6.9
8 8 Hamburg Germany 83 4.0 12.9 12.0 16.1 17.9
12 12 Antwerpen Belgium -13 -0.8 3.0 3.5 9.7 10.3
18 18 Bremen/ Bremerhaven Germany 53 5.7 14.5 10.7 3.4 3.5
22 21 Gioia Tauro Italy -51 -6.3 7.4 -6.2 -7.6 -8.6
21 22 Algeciras-La Linea Spain -12 -1.5 13.2 8.1 4.4 0.3
25 28 Valencia Spain 54 9.1 13.5 20.2 10.4 21.7
35 29 Le Havre * France -69 -12.1 12.4 4.3 -0.8 -10.1
33 32 Barcelona Spain -31 -5.7 12.3 10.4 10.9 6.8
49 38 Dublin Ireland 14 3.0 4.5 7.3 5.2 5.2
38 39 Genoa Italy 37 9.2 -1.0 -6.4 -7.4 16.1
43 41 Piraeus Greece -43 -11.3 -6.4 -29.3 0.3 -13.1
41 43 Zeebrugge Belgium 6 1.6 20.1 24.1 15.5 11.9
48 49 Marseilles France -26 -10.9 -1.1 2.5 1.5 -3.9
Total 16 0.1 10.6 6.8 7.1 1.0
Total of all Ports listed in the MCPM (a) 53 0.1 12.9 10.0 9.8 7.8
© ISL Port Data Base 2005 * figures for 4. Quarter are estimated
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