Australia - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in Australia was 8,656,995 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,798,571 in 2019 and a minimum value of 3,542,802 in 2000.

Definition: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Source: UNCTAD (http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx)

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Year Value
2000 3,542,802
2001 3,774,845
2002 4,355,020
2003 4,758,428
2004 5,057,346
2005 5,191,013
2006 5,741,962
2007 6,290,090
2008 6,102,342
2009 6,200,326
2010 6,371,630
2011 5,946,383
2012 7,173,783
2013 7,249,915
2014 7,401,051
2015 7,621,017
2016 7,629,490
2017 7,995,040
2018 8,569,337
2019 8,798,571
2020 8,656,995

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation