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Hong Kong falls out of top 10 container ports for the first time

The city saw a 14.1% YoY decrease in container traffic last year.

Hong Kong fell out of the top 10 busiest container ports globally last year, ranking 11th for the first time, Alphaliner reported.

Hong Kong saw a 14.1% YoY decline in container traffic to 14.34 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last year.

Dubai, which saw a 3.6% increase in container traffic, surpassed Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, Shanghai and Singapore topped the list with 49.16 million and 39.01 million TEUs recorded, respectively.

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