Singapore is still the world’s largest container port, handling some 24.8 million units last year, according to a German statistician. Container volume is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).

Singapore was followed by were Hong Kong (23.5 million) and Shanghai (21.7 million), the Federal Statistics Office said Tuesday in a world survey.

Asian ports occupy all six top spots: the others are Shenzhen near Hong Kong, Pusan in South Korea and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

Rotterdam, Europe's top container port, was again placed seventh in the world with 9.6 million TEU, Hamburg (8.9 million TEU) has been gaining on Rotterdam, the statisticians said. Hamburg traffic had grown nearly 10 percent in the past two years whereas Rotterdam was up just by 3.4 percent.