b'12American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comNotes on AJOTs Annual TopGLOBAL CONTAINER PORTS 2022100 Containerports AZThis years AJOTs Top 100 Containerports AZ is notable for By George Lauriat, AJOTThisyears AJOTsTopcompleted will be the worlds 100ContainerportsAZlargestcontainerterminal, isnotableforanumberofbeingabletohandlenearly reasons. It is clear from the65 million TEUs annuallya numbers that volumes are uptallythatmightlandSinga-at ports around the world. Itpore in the top spot by 2027. isalsoobviousthatsupplyAnotherportthatcould chain disruptions have hit thehit50millionTEUswithin ports hard and containershipsthedecadeisNingbo-sittingatanchorawaitingZhoushan. The Port is located berths have become a regularin East China 134 miles south feature of port operations.of Shanghai. In 2021 the Port Despite the COVID lock- handled 31.08 million TEUs downs,interruptionsinportranking 3 rdoverall. The Port operations,sanctionsandofNingbo-Zhoushanhas tariffs,therecoveryinportbeengrowingfastoverthe TEUthroughputshasbeenlastdecade.Backin2011, remarkable.Considerthewhilestillranked3 rd (2 nd in Port of Shanghai, the worldsChina) the Port handled just largest at just over 47 millionunder14.69millionTEUs, TEUs in 2021. A decade ago,(NOTEScontinued onCMA CGM Group and PSA Corp. recently signed a MOU to jointly create and implement sustainable solutions Shanghai was also ranked thepage 17) relating to CMA CGMs port and terminal handling activities in Singapore, through the joint venture partnership.worldsnumberoneportin TEUsat31.7millionthe onlyporttopping30mil-lionTEUs.Bythenumbers you wouldnt guess that with COVID lockdowns and other supplychaindisruptions, Shanghaiadded3.53mil- Moving Is Our Businesslion TEUs over 2020. To put thetotalinperspective,the 3.53 million added TEUs on their own would rank aroundMoving cargo. Moving forward. As we expand rail infrastructure and find innovative 45 thin the world in 2021.In 2022,thePortofShanghaisupply chain solutions, the Port of Long Beach continues to be the Port of Choice.is running about two percent ahead of 2021, although the impactsoflockdownsand othersupplychaindisrup-tions could dampen the final numbers.Forexample,in April,reportshadhandling capacitydownaround25% comparedtonormalopera-tions. But should lockdowns andthesupplychainsoon return to normalcy, by 2023 Shanghai is likely to be a 50 million TEU port. But will Shanghai be alone? r ise oF thep ort oFs ingaporeThePortofSingapore, locatedontheeasternend oftheStraitsofMalacca,is positionedononethegreat-estnauticalcrossroadsin theworld.Alwaysastrate-gicport,Singaporehasnow emergedasthenumbertwo containerportintheworld, courtesy of the recent rise in Southeast Asian industry and trade. The Port of Singapore handled37.5millionTEUs in 2021, slightly up on 2020 36.87 million TEUs. Although Singapore is nearly 10 million TEUs behind Shanghai for the top spot, the Port could over-take Shanghai as the worlds largestcontainerportbefore the end of the decade. Singa-pore is currently in the midst of constructing the mega-ter-minal Tuas Mega Port on the far western side of the island. And the terminals completion isscheduledbetween2025 and 2027. Tuas Mega is being built in four phases, and when'