TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit.
The data in this statistic include only loaded containers in U.S. internation maritime activity and cover U.S. imports, exports, and transshipments. Therefore, the trade levels will be greater than those reported from U.S. international trade statistics, which exclude transshipments. The data also exclude military shipments.
This statistic shows a ranking of the leading ports for U.S. waterborne foreign containerized trade in 2009. In that year, the port of Los Angeles loaded approximately ** twenty-foot equivalent units of foreign containerized cargo.
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Bureau of Transportation Statistics, & RITA. (January 15, 2011). The leading ports for U.S. waterborne foreign containerized trade in 2009 (in 1,000s of loaded TEUs) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 30, 2026, from /statistics/183868/10-leading-ports-for-us-foreign-trade-2009/
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