In 2021, China's Qingdao Port handled a total of about 23.7 million TEUs of containers, an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the previous year. During the year, Qingdao Port was the sixth-biggest container port in the world and the fifth-largest in China. Its main operator is Qingdao Port International Co., Ltd.
Annual container throughput of Qingdao Port in China from 2016 to 2021
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TEU is an abbreviation of Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit, an international measuring unit with the standard a container with a length of 20 feet, a width of eight feet and a height of eight feet and six inches, also known as the international unit of standard container. Figures have been rounded to provide better understanding of the statistic. * Figures for 2016 to 2020 were retrieved from previous reports.
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Ministry of Transport of China. (January 19, 2022). Annual container throughput of Qingdao Port in China from 2016 to 2021 (in million TEUs) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 24, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1318460/container-throughput-port-of-qingdao/
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