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world yearbook could be delivered to any one of seven Top U.S. Ports cargo in value (in Millions) Top U.S. Ports Cargo (total tons) terminals in the “Los Angeles–Long

RankU.S. Port 2018 2017

RankU.S. Port 2018 Tons2017 Tons

Beach complex,” which is another way 1 Los Angeles $ 297,048$ 283,940 1 Houston 201,540,173180,855,210 of saying the two ports at San Pedro 2 Port of NY/NJ $ 206,827$ 189,740

Bay. Each of the Japanese carriers had its 2 New Orleans 127,643,304127,795,757 own terminal at the Southern Californian 3 Houston $ 159,249$ 131,474 3 Port of NY/NJ 85,170,79281,626,497 complex, with ‘K’ Line’s International 4 Georgia Ports $ 119,516$ 107,675 4 Los Angeles 80,378,41378,551,891

Transportation Services and NYK’s Yu- 5 Long Beach $ 109,166$ 99,897 5 Gramercy 80,219,05775,737,847 sen operating facilities at Long Beach, 6 Virginia Ports $ 79,336$ 77,757 and MOL’s TraPac operating the Tra- 6 Virginia Ports 69,827,66263,156,849 7 SeaTac $ 77,510$ 75,245

Pac facility at Los Angeles. And now 7 Corpus Christi 66,840,66663,060,655 that they have merged, ONE’s contain- 8 SC Ports $ 72,690$ 69,754 8 Long Beach 53,709,45153,571,196 ers could go to either port at any time. 9 Baltimore $ 59,723$ 53,962

The same is true for any of the contain- 9 Port Arthur 52,920,43250,534,141 10 New Orleans $ 53,371$ 50,171 ers carried on any of the other alliances. 10 Lake Charles 44,050,52037,874,562 11 Oakland $ 49,203$ 47,790

The same is also true with the Port of 11 Baltimore 42,993,12238,213,697 12 Corpus Christi $ 29,506$ 22,733

Seattle and the Port of Tacoma, which 12 Georgia Ports 42,939,90340,077,356 now do business as a consolidated port: 13 Jacksonville $ 25,678$ 25,322 the Northwest Seaport Alliance. To the 13 Beaumont 41,836,44334,358,309 14 Miami $ 25,665$ 23,894 north, the Northwest Seaport Alliance 14 SeaTac 40,812,65839,884,751 15 Philadelphia $ 24,598$ 22,561 has nine container terminals between 15 Baton Rouge 37,123,01233,419,070 16 Port Everglades $ 24,404$ 23,173

Seattle and Tacoma ports. Alliance CEO

John Wolfe said it will eventually reduce 17 Port Arthur $ 21,205$ 15,338 16 Mobile 36,589,91436,178,686 the number to four, with two in the North 18 Gramercy $ 21,100$ 19,203 17 Philadelphia 26,240,70525,543,116

Harbor and two in the South Harbor, the 19 Beaumont $ 18,777$ 13,240 18 Wilmington, DE 25,108,05425,704,747 new inside names of Seattle and Tacoma, 20 Mobile $ 18,703$ 16,905 19 SC Ports 22,768,64225,050,692 called locally SeaTac.

21 Lake Charles $ 14,291$ 11,178

The same is true for containers carried 20 Freeport, TX 21,139,14019,556,790 to the Port of New York/New Jersey, 22 Wilmington, DE $ 13,821$ 11,367 21 Texas City 20,463,40322,336,398 which offers seven different cargo ter- 23 San Juan $ 12,218$ 9,902 22 Morgan City 18,786,76523,725,942 minal operators along a coastal area that 24 Baton Rouge $ 11,907$ 9,930 includes 25 miles and two states. The 23 Richmond, CA 18,187,19918,877,707 25 Portland, OR $11,843$ 10,485 top 10 global shipping lines control 84 24 Oakland 17,670,98917,942,979

ALL *** $ 1,761,609$ 1,602,201 percent of the world’s container capac- 25 Portland, OR 17,005,08715,005.087 ity, up from 53 percent in 2006. And

TOTALS *** 1,600,723,5701,527,434,07 consolidation is sure to continue. As

Maersk CEO Soren Skou said to the Fi- nancial Times, “The industry is expected to consolidate further leaving about 5-6 major global carriers in the next decade or so to run the market.” Already, many lists by TEU include Los Angeles/Long

Beach together as San Pedro Bay. They include SeaTac or Seattle/Tacoma as one port, the NWSA or Northwest Seaport

Alliance. And they count NY/NJ as one giant port. As you can see from the next list that would reduce six ports among the top 10 to three, and move others up.

To portray an accurate picture of TEUs at the ports including import TEUs, ex- port TEUs and empty TEUs we have decided to use the little known Port

Performance Freight Statistic Report to

Congress 2017 to report the 2017 totals.

To report the 2018 totals we have used

AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERED the ports’ own statistics from 2018 as described in each of their press releases.

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