Liesl Venter During 2018 the combined throughput at the world’s top 20 container terminals reached 347.8 million TEUs, with the terminals handling 43.8% of the global container traffic. That is according to the Review of Maritime Transport 2019, which is published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). Shanghai remained the world’s busiest container port, with volumes expanding by 4.4% or two million TEUs. Only five ports outside Asia are featured among the 20 leading container ports, namely Antwerp, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Rotterdam.