Canada - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in Canada was 6,196,600 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,901,600 in 2019 and a minimum value of 2,890,388 in 2001.

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 2,927,942
2001 2,890,388
2002 3,307,310
2003 3,631,072
2004 3,926,147
2005 4,163,424
2006 4,330,163
2007 4,413,927
2008 4,720,663
2009 4,191,568
2010 4,694,496
2011 4,755,352
2012 5,111,777
2013 5,241,009
2014 5,426,175
2015 5,793,852
2016 5,738,484
2017 6,377,750
2018 6,770,381
2019 6,901,600
2020 6,196,600

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation