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Port Calling League of World Container Ships 2000

Publication year Port and Airport Research Institute Technical Note 0963 2000.09
Author(s) Yasuhiro AKAKURA,Mitsuko SATO,Hironao TAKAHASHI
Department
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Planning and Design Standard Division Systems Laboratory
Executive Summary

 This paper deals with the statistics of port calling of world full-container ships at the year of 1999. The data processed in this paper is the database made by Lloyd's Maritime Information Services. The total number of calling, the whole sum of TEU capacity and Dead Weight Tonnage of calling ships are calculated at all ports and countries. As the result of the calculation, it is estimated that Japan was at the top country of the number of port calling container ships all over the world.
 Furthermore, the sizes of calling ships are analyzed to divide the number of calling into Under Panamax, Panamax and Over Panamax. In addition this, the dimensions of container shipsare pigeonholed.

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