How to Use container port in a Sentence

container port

noun

• Seven of the world’s ten largest container ports are in China.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• At the time, the Lisanne, as the ship was called then, was returning from Miragoâne, a container port in southern Haiti.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• At the port of Shanghai, the largest container port in the world, ships are backed up for miles out to sea, waiting to unload their cargo.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2022
• The Port of Long Beach has been recorded as the second-busiest container port in the country and the twenty-first-busiest container cargo port in the world.
  — Fox News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Shanghai, which has been locked down for more than a month, is the world’s busiest container port, according to the World Shipping Council.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• The fire at Turkey's Iskenderun container port that was triggered by the quake has been brought under control.
  — WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• European ports have quadrupled since late March, when China shut down the city of Shanghai, which has the world’s busiest container port.
  — Laura He, CNN, 6 May 2022
• Mobile’s fast-growing container port is on track for a new round of expansion work.
  — al, 22 Mar. 2022
• Hong Kong thrived as the trade gateway to China for decades, but it was eclipsed as the world’s busiest container port in 2000 by facilities in the Chinese mainland.
  — Zen Soo and Joe McDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
• Its container port once fed Venezuela but now sits largely empty, and its streets raged with protests against President Nicolás Maduro for months this year.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• The news has caused a stir, coming days after the government’s approval of China’s Cosco buying a stake in a Hamburg container port.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
• The city accounts for almost 4% of China’s gross domestic product, a larger share than Beijing’s, and is home to the world’s busiest container port.
  — Rachel Liang, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• But the city’s container port was recently hit by a Covid-19 outbreak among dockworkers.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• Houston is the largest U.S. hub for energy exports and a rapidly growing container port.
  — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• Ningbo is the world’s third-largest container port and a big gateway for Chinese exports like furniture, home goods, toys and auto parts headed to markets in the U.S. and Europe.
  — WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
• Virginia is home to the sixth-largest container port in the U.S., part of a sprawling facility that also includes the world’s largest naval base, ship repair services and dry-bulk berths for coal exports.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2020
• Covid lockdowns in China have wreaked havoc at Shanghai, the world’s biggest container port, and are now causing problems at other major ports around the world.
  — Laura He, CNN, 6 May 2022
• The town was heavily damaged by bombing in World War II and revived, first as an oil terminal and, more recently, as a container port.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Duqm is earmarked as the site of a vast new container port, refinery and industrial zone that, it is hoped, will help move the country away from dependence on oil revenues.
  — Eoghan MacGuire, CNN, 3 June 2018
• But those plans quickly collided with the needs of a next-door neighbor, the busy Conley Terminal container port, where ship and truck traffic has increased in recent years.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• The railway that connects Gioia Tauro, one of the largest container ports in the Mediterranean, to Europe stops 1.5 kilometers short of the actual shipping terminal.
  — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
• The decision, a victory for New Jersey, leaves the door open for future legal tussles between the two states that share jurisdiction over the busiest container port on the East Coast.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2021
• Both candidates support a proposal to build a container port in Coos Bay, which Hoyle said would provide about 9,000 permanent jobs.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
• Last month, authorities shut down part of Ningbo-Zhoushan port — the world's third largest container port — for weeks after a dock worker tested positive for Covid.
  — Laura He, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• The Port of Los Angeles, the country’s biggest container port, said Thursday that 15 percent of all cargo would be affected by the tariffs announced so far.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2018
• Some trade at a major container port near Shanghai was even suspended this week after a worker tested positive for the virus.
  — Laura He, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• And covid-lockdown related delays in Shanghai, home to the world’s busiest container port, could extend the high shipping prices and product shortages that plagued the global economy in 2021.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2022
• The situation in Shanghai, which has the world's largest container port, has caused shipping delays to worsen, putting more pressure on global supply chains.
  — Laura He, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
• The Port of Savannah, the third-largest container port in the country, recently expanded to mitigate the congestion.
  — Shawn Clark, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• While infections have jumped in Tianjin, a major hub for China’s energy imports, there were fewer than 70 new cases reported in Shanghai, home to the world’s busiest container port.
  — Raffaele Huang, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024