South Africa - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in South Africa was 4,029,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,892,400 in 2018 and a minimum value of 1,801,610 in 2002.

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)

See also:

Year Value
2000 1,846,944
2001 2,021,183
2002 1,801,610
2003 2,378,881
2004 2,614,577
2005 3,111,121
2006 3,552,198
2007 3,734,165
2008 3,875,952
2009 3,726,313
2010 3,959,192
2011 4,383,509
2012 4,353,256
2013 4,694,577
2014 4,567,993
2015 4,662,300
2016 4,354,000
2017 4,563,700
2018 4,892,400
2019 4,592,200
2020 4,029,000

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation