Busiest shipping ports

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This map highlights Europe’s busiest shipping ports, where trade, history, and geopolitics meet. Rotterdam reigns supreme, larger than Paris and long the continent’s “gateway to the world,” while Antwerp and Hamburg carry forward centuries-old traditions of commerce.

Russia’s Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk reflect Moscow’s drive for strategic maritime power, just as Gdańsk recalls a port where history once turned in 1939. From Spain’s Mediterranean hubs of Algeciras and Valencia to Constanța on the Black Sea, each port is not only an economic engine but also a reminder that Europe’s story has always been written on its shores.

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