According to an outlook report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s ports will remain the busiest in the whole world for 2011. This will be the case even if the economic recovery in the U.S. and the European Union is very slow and will probably affect container volume growth.
The same report suggested that the global container volumes will rise continuously this 2011 but the increase will be smaller than last year’s.
The top 20 ports in the world will have an average growth of 8.5 percent and 10.3 percent these numbers are definitely smaller than last year’s increase which is a very impressive 15.2.
The Dalian port in China is expected to be the 20th largest port in the whole world this year, and aside from Dalian, nine other Chinese ports would also be included in the top 20, which is really amazing. The other rankings are just the same.