You Lie! Congressman: I've Been Proven Correct. Remember in 2009 the Congressman who yelled you lie at President Obama during an address to both Houses of Congress? Obama claimed that his health care reform plan (now called Obamacare) would not allocate money for illegal immigrants. Wilson says this group is made up mostly of illegal immigrants.
Shanghai (China): Having a total of five working areas, the port of Shanghai became the biggest port in the world, surpassing the port of Singapore. That year alone, around 29 million TEUs were handled by the port of Shanghai which has both â a sea as well as a river port.
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: