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Top Ten Biggest Aircraft in the World
Number 2: Airbus A340 - up to 375 passengers in the standard variants and 440 in the stretched −600 series Number 8: Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter - It is ...
+drivernjax this list isnt very true. he said the 747-400 is bigger than the 747-8 like the other guy said, and i think that the 10 plane isnt very big campared to the planes that we have today
As of 2014: 1. Shanghai 3,236 2. Singapore 3,096 3. Shenzhen 2,187 4. Hong
Kong 2,042 5. Ningbo 1,797 6. Busan 1,709 7.Chingdao 1,523 8.Guangzhou
1,464 9. Tientsin 1,297 10. Kaohsiung 965 (Units: 10,000 TEU)(Source: Korea
Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
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. So there is no real port in Europe as Europe is landlocked. Korea also
has many smaller but yet large ports so China and Korea rule the sea ports.
+Raspoetin a While it is true that China is a much larger player than Korea, your comparison with the nose bugger sized Rotterdam port is totally wrong. Busan is much larger than Rotterdam which is only as large as the now defunct Kaohsiung port of which very little remains. Busan has also much higher developed IT technology,security and ,most important, military presence than Rotterdam which has almost no IT and very weak military protection. Neither UAE nor Netherlands have anything to export nor do Singapore and Hong Kong. Korea is much more strategically important than Germany as an exporter as it is the world's only maker of DRAMs.
+xxwzaebd 7 out of the 10 largest ports are in China, 8 if you count Singapore. Compared to China, Korea is a small player, just like Dubai or Rotterdam.
+xxwzaebd Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, Western Europe had a significant military force to deter any attack from the now dissolved USSR, something that is no longer necessary. Unlike Europe, South Korea completely depends on their harbours for their oil supply. Just block Korea's harbours and they are completely cut off from the rest of the world (except for transport via air). Europe can get oil (and other forms of energy) via pipelines, barges, trains, trucks and via the ocean.What do you mean by Rotterdam does not have an industry infra... There are roads, trains and barges that connect Rotterdam with the rest of Europe. Just to give you an idea, just in the Netherlands there are approximately 7500 barges that go up and down the European rivers.I think you have been watching to much propaganda...
+Raspoetin a Both are in fact defunct. Rotterdam is just passing other products from elsewhere and has no military power /industry linkage around it. Busan port has a provincial army division ,US and Korean naval bases nearby and thus much safer than Rotterdam which has nothing to protect it from invasion. Europe's problem is its total lack of military capabilities. The recent Ukraine crisis shows it all-Russian planes invade European airspace while European ports have, unlike Korea, no capability of processing oil from the sea. Even if the US gives away shale gas oil free to Europe in case of Russian blockade, Europe does not have facilities in its ports. Korea has other ports than Busan with very powerful military/industrial connection.Pyeongtaek,Incheon,Gwangyang are very good examples. All of them are better than Rotterdam or Hong Kong and Singapore which just pass things through,with no military and industry infra.
+Smouts Channel The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 42% of Britain's containerised trade. In 2011, it was ranked as the 35th busiest container port in the world and Europe's sixth busiest. Wikipedia