Pigeon Forge Hotels Next to the Island. In just one year, the Island of Pigeon Forge has become Pigeon Forges town square. Our hotel is just one block away from the Island; we are now an affordable hotel near the Island.
In fact, 48 of the 50 busiest days of the year were during the summer, with August 7 coming in at No. 1 (file that away under Things to Remember for Next Summer), with 2,909,670 scheduled seats.
Now, in a fascinating new map looking at the busiest container-ship ports by twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) shipped, Kadish shows that it's largely the same story. The busiest port in the United States, in Los Angeles, is only the 16th busiest in the world. The only port in the top 10 outside of east Asia is the tax friendly Jebel Ali free zone in the United Arab Emirates. Here's the map, based on data from the World Shipping Council. The top 15 ports are numbered, you can find the remainder here: