China has some of world's top performing ports

Chinese container ports are the world’s most productive, according to the 2013 JOC Port Productivity Data rankings released earlier this year. Last year’s top three ports globally, in terms of berth productivity, were Tianjin, Qingdao and Ningbo. The top three terminals were APM Terminals Yokohama, Tianjin Port Pacific International Container Terminal and Ningbo Beilun Second Terminal. In the top port position, China’s Tianjin averaged 130 moves per hour last year. Among terminals, APMT Yokohama averaged 163 total moves per hour, according to the 2013 data, which measures gross berth productivity defined as the average number of crane moves per hour, per ship between the vessel’s arrival and departure at the berth.