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Skriven 2008-10-19 13:56:15 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 22074 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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17 Oct 08 22:40, Ward Dossche wrote to TIM RICHARDSON:

 TR>> Port of Los Angles....Long Beach *small*?

 TR>> You don't know what a `real seaport' is......aparently!

 WD> I've lived most of my life in Antwerp. That is the 4th largest port
 WD> in the world, second largest in Europe after Rotterdam (the
 WD> Netherlands which also happens to be the largest in the world).

Wrong. Belgium isn't even mentioned among the five largest ports in the
world.

Cargo Volume:

   1. Shanghai, China
   2. Singapore, Singapore
   3. Rotterdam, Netherlands
   4. Ningbo, China
   5. Guangzhou, China

Container Traffic:

   1. Singapore, Singapore
   2. Hong Kong, China
   3. Shanghai, China
   4. Shenzhen, China
   5. Busan, South Korea

 WD> The past 12 months a total of 192 million tonnes was shipped. The
 WD> month of May-08 had 16,842,163 tonnes and 808,763 TEU. Annually
 WD> around 10 million TEU.

Pure BS. The world's busiest port is contested by several ports around the
world, as there is as yet no standardised means of evaluating port
performance and traffic. The Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Singapore
both claim to be the world's largest and busiest ports. Again, ports in
Belgium don't even make the list.

 WD> The Port of Los Angeles has a monthly average of 510,630 TEU and an
 WD> annual load of 5,900,000 TEU. In the neighbourhood of half of what
 WD> our local port here handles.

The Port of San Pedro includes both Long Beach and Los Angeles. You can't
take one and compare it to another. You have to include the total
shipping from both ports, which beats Antwerp 2.5:1...

 WD> They report 190 million tonnes of goods but that includes the
 WD> containers, while Antwerp's 192 million tonnes are bulk, liquid and
 WD> refrigerated cargo only.

Among the top 10 ports in the world, Long Beach is rated 6th behind
Rotterdam and Los Angeles is rated 8th after Shangai, while Antwerp comes
in last at 10th behind Hamburg.

 WD> So ... you were saying "seaports"?

You don't know shit about them.

                R\%/itt



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