Principales Puertos Marítimos

KAREN MARITZA PÉREZ VIDAURRI
1. - Investigate the concept of TEU in the maritime transportation (which is? It used for which uses?
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexactunit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals. It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metalbox which can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains and trucks.
One TEU represents the cargo capacity of a standard intermodal container, 20 feet(6.1 m) long and 8 feet (2.44 m) wide. There is a lack of standardization in regards to height, ranging between 4.25 and 9.5 feet (1.30 and 2.9 m), with the most common height being 8.5 feet (2.6 m).Also, it is common to designate 45-foot (13.7 m) containers as 2 TEU, rather than 2.25 TEU.
2. - Ranking updated of the 10 major seaports in the world.
Rank | Port | Country | 2010 | | | | | |1 | Singapore | Singapore | 25,866 | | | | | |
2 | Shanghai | People's Republic of China | 25,002 | | | | | |
3 | Hong Kong | People's Republic of China | 20,983 | | | | | |
4 |Shenzhen | People's Republic of China | 18,250 | | | | | |
5 | Busan | South Korea | 11,954 | | | | | |
6 | Guangzhou | People's Republic of China | 11,190 | | | | | |
7 | Dubai |United Arab Emirates | 11,124 | | | | | |
8 | Ningbo | People's Republic of China | 10,502 | | | | | |
9 | Qingdao | People's Republic of China | 10,260 | | | | | |
10 |Rotterdam | Netherlands | 9,743 | | | | | |

3. - Analysis of Mexico's most important ports. Perform a matrix with their movements, their characteristics, its infrastructure and its prospects for thefuture.

I think that two seaports are important, but the port of Veracruz has more movements of different things like the port of Ensenada, and other thing that is interesting is that the port of...