Source: Drewry Shipping Consultants/UNCTAD. Container throughput includes full and empty containers that account for 80% and 20% of the maritime traffic, respectively. The large-scale adoption of the container and globalization consistently drove global container port growth rates between 5% and 10% from the 1980s to the 2000s. Then, in the … Continue reading World Container Throughput, 1980-2023