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
• Mobile’s fast-growing container port is on track for a new round of expansion work.
  — al, 22 Mar. 2022
• 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 goal is to lift the Port of Baltimore to the third-largest container port on the East Coast.
  — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• The Port of Houston is the fifth-largest container port in the county and the largest on the Gulf Coast.
  — Shafaq Patel, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
• Fan’s wife, a firefighter, died in a container port blaze caused by just such incendiary waste, which prompts him to quit politics and leave the city.
  — James Marsh, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
• The fire at Turkey's Iskenderun container port that was triggered by the quake has been brought under control.
  — WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• The drugs were seized at London Gateway, a deep-sea container port about 30 miles from London.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
• 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
• But the city’s container port was recently hit by a Covid-19 outbreak among dockworkers.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• Advertisement To pave way for the container port, even corals are currently set to be moved from Galathea Bay.
  — M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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 Port of Manzanillo, the country's busiest container port, was temporarily closed to containers coming in or out.
  — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• The Port of Manzanillo, Mexico’s busiest container port, had briefly closed Sunday but had reopened before the end of the day.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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 Port of Singapore is the world’s second-business container port, and trade accounts for some three times the country’s GDP.
  — Chris Wellisz, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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