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Alphaliner outlines the ups and downs of world's top ports in 2015

HERE are the world port rankings in TEU throughput and the degree to which they went up or down in 2015.

1) Shanghai, 36.54 million TEU, up 3.5 per cent; 2) Singapore, 30.92 million TEU, down 8.7 per cent; 3) Shenzhen, 24.20 million TEU, up 0.7 per cent; 4) Ningbo, 20.63 million TEU, up six per cent; 5) Hong Kong, 20.08 million TEU, down 9.7 per cent.

6) Busan, 19.43 million TEU, up four per cent; 7) Guangzhou, 17.57 million TEU, up 5.7 per cent; 8) Qingdao, 17.50 million TEU up 5.3 per cent; 9) Jebel Ali, 15.59 million TEU, up 2.3 per cent; 10) LA/Long Beach, 15.35 million TEU, up 1.3 per cent.

11) Tianjin, 14.11 million TEU, up 0.4 per cent; 12) Rotterdam, 12.23 million TEU, down 0.5 per cent; 13) Port Klang, 11.89 million TEU up 8.7 per cent; 14) Kaohsiung, 10.26 million TEU, down 3.1 per cent; 15) Antwerp, 9.65 million TEU, up 7.5 per cent.

16) Dalian, 9.3 million TEU million, up 8.2 per cent; 17) Xiamen, 9.18 million TEU, 7.1 per cent; 18) Tanjung Pelepas, 9.13 million TEU, up 7.1 per cent; 19) Hamburg, 8.87 million TEU, down 9.3 per cent and 20) Laem Chabang, 6.82 million TEU, up 3.6 per cent.