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
• Gangs attacked both the National Penitentiary and the country's main container port.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
• The prison attack follows reports on Friday that armed men had attempted to take control of the capital’s main container port, causing traffic disruptions, and gangs threatened to attack more of the city’s police stations.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024