Alexander Petrunin

Biggest Ports in Australia and New Zealand 2026, Ranked

Pilbara Ports passed 800 million tonnes for the first time in the year to 30 June 2026, with Port Hedland at 580.4 million and Dampier at 178.3 million. Melbourne led containers at 3.52 million TEU while Port Botany set an Australian record of 504,000 rail moved TEU. Tauranga and Auckland split New Zealand. Full ranking by tonnage and by TEU, with the reporting period on every line.

Biggest Baltic Sea Ports 2026, Ranked by Tonnage and Containers

Ust-Luga led the Baltic on tonnage in 2025 with 130.5 million tonnes, while Gdansk led on containers with nearly 2.8 million TEU and Klaipeda grew fastest at 22 percent. Latvian rail freight fell 18.7 percent in the first half of 2026 as Poland began building the 2.3 billion euro Cape Pomerania terminal at Swinoujscie. Full ranking with the years attached to every figure.

The Biggest Port Projects Under Construction in 2026, Ranked (Capacity vs Delivery Date)

Eight live port projects carry about 56 million TEU of new capacity between them, and almost none of it lands before 2028. Vadhavan leads on paper at 23.2 million TEU for 2034, Tuas Phase 2 is closest to delivery, Ndayane finished dredging 13 months early. Ranked by capacity added, with the cost conflicts left visible.

The World's Largest Bulk Export Terminals in 2026: Iron Ore and Coal Ranked

Port Hedland shipped 571.6 million tonnes of iron ore in the year to June 2026, about 75 percent of all Pilbara exports, through one dredged channel. Here are the largest iron ore and coal export terminals in 2026 by volume, plus the measurement traps that make published bulk rankings disagree.

The World's Largest Bunkering Ports in 2026, Ranked by Volume

Singapore sold 56.775 million tonnes of marine fuel in 2025, more than the next 5 hubs combined, while Zhoushan took third place at 8.03 million tonnes. Fujairah collapsed more than 70 percent in April 2026 and recovered to 640,715 cubic metres in July; Rotterdam fell 25.1 percent in the first half. Here is the 2026 ranking, with each port kept in its own reported unit.

The Biggest Dry Ports and Inland Container Depots in 2026

Khorgos Gateway lifted capacity from 540,000 to 800,000 TEU in September 2025 and handled around 380,000 TEU, while Alashankou ran more than 6,000 China-Europe trains. Here are the largest dry ports ranked, and why train counts and TEU figures cannot be compared directly.

Supply Chain Case Studies in 2026: Ten Cases With Numbers Attached

Maersk rebuilt about 4,000 servers after NotPetya at a cost near 300 million dollars. Nike lost around 100 million in sales to a demand planning rollout. Ten supply chain cases with published figures, root causes, and a method for reading case studies critically.

The Busiest Land Border Crossings in Europe in 2026 (And Why the Eastern Rim Shrank to One Gate)

Kapikule handled about 4 million vehicles in 2025 and now runs 24 to 72 hour freight waits. Belarus has banned EU-registered trucks until December 2027, Poland clears between 24 and 48 percent of the freight presented, and the Entry/Exit System has cut Western Balkan drivers out of EU work.

The Longest Trucks and Road Trains in the World in 2026, Ranked (Records vs Legal Limits)

The record is 1,474 metres and 113 trailers. The legal maximum is 53.5 metres in Australia, 34.5 in Finland and 16.5 for a standard EU lorry. Here is what each jurisdiction actually permits, and why length is rarely the binding constraint.

The Busiest China-Europe Rail Border Crossings in 2026, Ranked (Trains vs Bottleneck Risk)

Alashankou handled 8,165 trains in 2025 and Khorgos 8,730 in 2024, but 85 to 90 percent of China to Europe trains enter the EU at one Polish terminal. Here are the crossings ranked by trains handled, and what the concentration at Malaszewicze does to your transit time.

The Biggest Ship Recycling Yards in 2026, Ranked (LDT vs HKC Compliance)

Alang, Chittagong, Gadani and Aliağa dismantle almost every merchant ship that leaves the fleet, with combined capacity near 12 million LDT a year and 85 percent of 2025 tonnage going to South Asia. Since the Hong Kong Convention entered force on 26 June 2025, certification decides where a ship can go. Here is the ranking, the price per LDT, and why the yards are short of work.

The Biggest Shipbuilders in the World in 2026, Ranked (Orderbook vs New Orders vs Deadweight)

China leads world shipbuilding by every measure, but the margin changes with the yardstick: 65 percent of the standing orderbook, 72 percent of first-half 2026 new orders by CGT, and 82.3 percent by deadweight. That 17-point spread tells you what kind of ships each country builds, and the global orderbook at 17 percent of the fleet tells you where freight rates go in 2028.