TEUs in 2004

Container shipping is foundational to the contemporary global economy, a fact made clear when the cargo ship Ever Given blocked Suez Canal for nearly a week in March 2021. This map zooms out from that event to examine the global growth of the largest global cargo ports from 2004 to 2019. Throughput is measured in thousands of twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs.

Sources

• "List of Busiest Container Ports," Wikipedia, Retrieved 6/14/2021.
• ESRI World Geocoder
• Arrow icon: "Next" by Тимур Минвалеев from the Noun Project