In 2017, the five leading container-handling ports worldwide were Asia-based. The port of Shanghai was the busiest container port in the world, handling about 40.2 million TEUs of containerized cargo. In its 2017 fiscal year, the Port of Los Angeles handled some 9.2 million TEUs, making it the largest container port in the United States.
* The abbreviation TEU stands for twenty-foot equivalent unit, a standard unit of measure in the shipping industry.
