North America’s largest container terminals

Posted on December 21, 2022 by problogic
Garden City Container Terminal – Source: railwayage.com

The following list identifies the largest marine terminals specifically developed (or being developed) as container terminals at seaports across North America, based on their acreage. The Garden City Container Terminal in Savannah, Georgia is the largest single such facility in North America occupying an enormous 1,400 acres plus of land area (see image below – shown in gray).

Aerial image of the Garden City Container Terminal in Savannah, GA – Source: maps.google.com

Compare this single facility of 1,437 acres to other major seaports that have multiple container terminals on the list. These include:

  • Los Angeles/Long Beach (APM Pacific, Long Beach, Fenix, Pacific, TraPac, Everport, and Marina) = 1,962 acres combined
  • Houston (Bayport, Barbours Cut, and Freeport) = 962 acres combined
  • New York City (Newark, Bayonne, Staten Island, and Red Hook) = 706 acres combined
  • Seattle/Tacoma (Terminal 18, Terminal 5, Terminal 46, Terminal 30, and Husky) = 638 acres combined
  • New Orleans (International and Napoleon Avenue) = 465 acres combined
  • Vancouver, BC, Canada (Deltaport and Vanterm) = 284 acres combined
  • Montreal, QC, Canada (Viau, Acine, and Maisonneuve) = 166 acres combined

A minimum of 50 acres was required for inclusion on the list below. Seven (7) nations (when separating out Puerto Rico) are represented – the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. Cuba just missed being included, as Havana’s Container Terminal is 45 acres in size. Peace!

Map of the largest container ports in North America – Map made with mygooglemaps.com

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  1. Garden City Container Terminal – Savannah (Garden City), GA, USA = 1,437 acres

2. La Quinta Container Port – Corpus Christi (Ingleside), TX, USA = 580 acres – under development

3. Virginia International Gateway Container Terminal – Norfolk (Portsmouth), VA, USA = 576 acres

4. Bayport Container Terminal – Houston (Seabrook), TX, USA = 499 acres

5. APM Pacific Container Terminal – Los Angeles, CA, USA = 484 acres

6. Wando Welch Container Terminal – Charleston (Mt. Pleasant), SC, USA = 400 acres

7. Louisiana International Container Terminal – New Orleans (Violet), LA, USA = 400 acres – under development

8. Long Beach Container Terminal – Los Angeles (Long Beach), CA, USA = 304 acres

9. Fenix Container Terminal – Los Angeles, CA, USA = 292 acres

10. Oakland International Container Terminal – San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland), CA, USA = 284 acres

11. Barbours Cut Container Terminal – Houston (La Porte), TX, USA = 272 acres

12. Port of Newark Container Terminal – New York City (Newark, NJ), NY/NJ, USA= 272 acres

13. Pacific Container Terminal – Los Angeles (Long Beach), CA USA, USA = 256 acres

14. TraPac Container Terminal – Los Angeles, CA, USA = 220 acres

15. Deltaport Container Terminal – Vancouver (Delta), BC, Canada = 208 acres

16. Everport Container Terminal – Los Angeles, CA, USA = 205 acres

17. South Container Terminal – Kingston, Jamaica = 203 acres

18. North Charleston Container Terminal – Charleston (North Charleston), SC, USA = 201 acres

19. Marina Container Terminal A – Los Angeles (Long Beach), CA, USA = 201 acres

20. Sand Island Container Terminal – Honolulu, HI, USA = 200 acres

21. Fairview Container Terminal – Prince Rupert, BC, Canada = 200 acres

22. SSA Terminal 18 Container Port – Seattle, WA, USA = 196 acres

23. Velasco Container Terminal – Houston (Freeport), TX, USA = 191 acres – upon expansion completion

24. Global Container Terminal – New York City (Staten Island), NY/NJ, USA = 187 acres

25. Colon Container Terminal – Colon, Panama = 183 acres

26. Terminal 5 Container Port – Seattle, WA, USA = 172 acres

27. Global Container Terminal – New York City (Bayonne, NJ), NY/NJ, USA = 167 acres

28. APM Container Terminal – Mobile, AL, USA = 166 acres

29. Port of Tampa Bay Container Terminal – Tampa, FL, USA = 160 acres

30-31. Terminal 6 Container Port – Portland, OR, USA and South Gate Container Terminal – Wilmington, NC, USA = 125 acres

32. Freeport Container Port – Freeport, Bahamas = 121 acres

33. Isla Cayacal Container Terminal – Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico = 119 acres

35. Edgemoor Container Terminal* – Wilmington (Edgemoor), DE, USA and Husky Container Terminal – Seattle (Tacoma), WA = 112 acres – * under development

36. Conley Container Terminal – Boston MA, USA = 100 acres

37. SSA Terminal 46 Container Port – Seattle, WA, USA = 88 acres

38. Red Hook Container Terminal – New York City (Brooklyn), NY/NJ = 80 acres

39-40. Midport Container Terminal – Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA and South End Container Terminal – Halifax, NS, Canada = 77 acres and

41-42. Global Container Terminal Vanterm – Vancouver, BC, Canada and Cast Container Terminal – Montreal, QC, Canada = 76 acres

43-44. SSA Terminal 30 Container Port – Seattle, WA, USA and Port Saint John Container Port – Saint John, NB, Canada = 70 acres

45. Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal – New Orleans, LA, USA = 65 acres

46. SSA Container Terminal – Manzanillo, Mexico = 64 acres

47. TECI Container Terminal – Manzanillo, Mexico = 62 acres

48. Racine Container Terminal – Montreal, QC, Canada = 61 acres

49. Viau Container Terminal – Montreal, QC, Canada = 55 acres

50-53. SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal – Jacksonville, FL, USA; Maisonneuve Container Terminal – Montreal, QC, Canada; Port of the Ponce/Americas – Ponce, PR; and Guaymas Container Port* – Guaymas (Empalme), Mexico = 50 acres – *under development

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