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This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods. See the articles on individual ports for more information, including history, geography, and statistics.
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles together account for approximately 40% of the shipping containers entering the United States. [7] More than three-quarters of the containers leaving Los Angeles were empty in July 2021 whereas about two-thirds of the containers leaving U.S. ports are typically filled with exports.
Rank Country / Region Container port traffic in TEUs Year 1 China: 268,990,000 2022 2 United States: 62,214,119 2022 3
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. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.
This list ranks the busiest seaports by cargo tonnage, which refers to the total mass, or in some cases the volume, of cargo transported through each port. The rankings are based on AAPA world port data.
4] US rank: 53 Port Royal: North America: United States, South Carolina [4] Port Sulphur: North America: United States, Louisiana: Gulf of Mexico [4] Portland: North America: United States, Maine: Casco Bay: 4] US rank: 37 Port of New Hampshire: North America
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) union, which represents dockworkers across 36 ports on the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, remains deadlocked with the United States ...
The United States Army Corps of Engineers, which has been involved in harbor maintenance since about 1826, when Congress passed an omnibus rivers and harbors act, [45] [46] is responsible for bulkhead and channel maintenance. [45] [46] The United States Coast Guard deals with issues such as floatable debris, [47] spills, vessel rescues, and ...