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Port of Busan
Busan, South Korea35.10°N 129.04°E
computed criticality28/100
reading
24.4M TEU; No. 2 transshipment hub (2024)
2024Fault line
The world's second transshipment platform after Singapore, Busan redistributes containers among China, Japan and Pacific long-haul routes. A large share is cargo merely passing through; a failure there desynchronises shipping rotations across Northeast Asia.
Actors
Busan Port Authority
HMM
Ocean and Gemini alliances
Sources
Container News, 2025 ↗estimate