List of busiest ports by cargo tonnage




This is a list of the world's busiest seaports by cargo tonnage, the total mass, or in some cases volume, of actual cargo transported through the port. The rankings are based on AAPA world port ranking data.


The cargo rankings based on tonnage should be interpreted with caution since these measures are not directly comparable and cannot be converted to a single, standardized unit. In the Measure column, MT = Metric Tons, HT = Harbor Tons, FT = Freight Tons, and RT = Revenue Tons.




Contents






  • 1 2012–2016


  • 2 Rankings 2004–2011


  • 3 2005


  • 4 2004


  • 5 2003


  • 6 2002


  • 7 References and notes





2012–2016










































































































































































































































Rank Port Country
2016 kiloton[1][2]
2015 kiloton[3][4]
2014 kiloton[5][6]
2013 kiloton[7][8]
2012 kiloton[9][10]
1 Ningbo-Zhoushan
 China
MT 922,092
889,000 873,470 810,000 744,000
2 Shanghai
 China
MT 647,446
646,514 678,376 696,985 644,659
3 Singapore
 Singapore
FT 593,297
575,846 581,268 560,888 538,012
4 Guangzhou
 China
MT 544,374
475,481 500,975 472,760 438,000
5 Port Hedland
 Australia
MT 484,510
452,940 446,922 488,000 288,443
6 Rotterdam
 Netherlands
MT 461,177
466,363 444,733 440,464 441,527
7 Qingdao
 China
MT 443,978
476,216 465,055 450,111 407,340
8 Tianjin
 China
MT 428,098
440,430 445,780 477,399 477,000
9 Busan
 South Korea
RT 349,708
347,713 335,411 313,295 298,689
10 Dalian
 China
MT 318,413
320,658 337,366 320,843 303,000
11 Gwangyang
 South Korea
RT 283,106
272,007 134,947 127,642 109,730
12 Hong Kong
China China
MT 256,730
256,488 297,737 276,055 269,282
13 South Louisiana
 United States
MT 237,594
235,058 242,578 216,445 228,677
14 Port Klang
 Malaysia
MT 235,457
219,768 217,289 198,928 195,856
15 Xiamen
 China
MT 243,197
200,500 184,604 171,885 155,131
16 Houston
 United States
MT 224,969
218,575 212,561 207,973 216,082
17 Antwerp
 Belgium
MT 214,170
208,423 199,012 190,849 184,136
18 Nagoya
 Japan
FT 193,257
197,947 207,621 208,241 202,556
19 Shenzhen
 China
MT 189,509
191,037 192,093 201,546 196,458
20 Itaqui
 Brazil
MT 179,914 146,647 ?
135,421
133,507


Rankings 2004–2011









































































































































































































































































































Rank Port Country Measure 2011[11]
kiloton
2010[12]
kiloton
2009[13]
kiloton
2008[14]
kiloton
2007[15]
kiloton
2006[16]
kiloton
2005[17]
kiloton
2004[18]
kiloton
1 Shanghai
 China
MT 590,439 534,371 505,715 508,000 561,446 537.0 443,000 378,962
2 Singapore
 Singapore
FT 531,176 501,566 472,300 515,415 483,616 448.5 423,267 393,418
3 Tianjin
 China
MT 459,941 400,000 381,110 365,163 309,465 257.6 245,100 206,161
4 Rotterdam
 Netherlands
MT 434,551 429,926 386,957 421,136 401,181 378.4 376,600 352,563
5 Guangzhou
 China
MT 431,000 425,600 364,000 347,000 341,363 302.8 241,700 215,190
6 Qingdao
 China
MT 372,000 350,120 274,304 278,271 265,020 224.2 184,300 161,650
7 Ningbo
 China
MT 348,911 408,180 371,540 361,850 471,630 309.7 272,400 225,850
8 Qinhuangdao
 China
MT 284,600 276,815 243,850 252,000 245,964 204.9 167,500 150,320
9 Busan
 South Korea
RT 281,513 262,963 226,182 241,683 243,564 217.9 217,200 219,760
10 Hong Kong
 China, China
MT 277,444 267,815 242,967 259,402 245,433 238.2 230,139 220,879
11 Port Hedland
 Australia
MT 246,672 198,997 178,625 159,391 130,707 111.8 110,600 108,500
12 South Louisiana
 United States
MT 223,633 214,337 192,853 203,157 207,785 204.6 192,549 203,517
13 Houston
 United States
MT 215,731 206,055 191,729 192,473 196,014 201.5 192,023 183,419
14 Dalian
 China
MT 211,065 200,000 204,000 246,000 222,859 200.5 176,800 145,162
15 Shenzhen
 China
MT 205,475 204,860 211,000 187,045 199,190 176.0 153,900 135,246
16 Klang
 Malaysia
FT 193,726 168,588 137,615 152,348 135,514 122.0 109,700 99,911
17 Antwerp
 Belgium
MT 187,151 178,167 157,807 189,390 182,897 167.4 160,100 152,300
18 Nagoya
 Japan
FT 186,305 185,703 165,101 218,130 215,602 208.0 187,100 182,289
19 Dampier
 Australia
MT 171,844 165,025 N/A 140,823 133,949 126.0 110,100 87,92
20 Ulsan
 South Korea
RT 163,181 150,933 170,314 170,279 168,652 161.1 103,50 156,500


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Rank Port Country Measure Tons (000s)[17]
+/- from 2004 % change from 2004
1 Shanghai
 China
MT 443,000 64,038 16.90
2 Singapore
 Singapore
FT 423,267 29,849 7.59
3 Rotterdam
 Netherlands
MT 376,600 24,037 6.82
4 Ningbo
 China
MT 272,400 46,550 20.61
5 Tianjin
 China
MT 245,100 38,939 18.89
6 Guangzhou
 China
MT 241,700 26,510 12.32
7 Hong Kong
China China
MT 230,139 9,260 4.19
8 Busan
 South Korea
RT 217,200 -2,560 -1.16
9 South Louisiana
 United States
MT 192,549 -10,968 -5.39
10 Houston
 United States
MT 192,023 8,604 4.69
11 Nagoya
 Japan
FT 187,100 4,811 2.64
12 Qingdao
 China
MT 184,300 22,650 14.01
13 Gwangyang
 South Korea
RT 177,500 11,625 7.01
14 Dalian
 China
MT 176,800 31,638 21.79
15 Qinhuangdao
 China
MT 167,500 17,180 11.43
16 Chiba
 Japan
FT 165,700 -3,554 -2.10
17 Antwerp
 Belgium
MT 160,100 7,773 5.10
18 Shenzhen
 China
MT 153,900 18,654 13.79
19 New York/New Jersey
 United States
MT 138,014 -314 -0.23
20 Kaohsiung
 Taiwan
MT 137,900 -14,568 -9.55
21 Yokohama
 Japan
FT 133,300 6,340 4.99
22 Hamburg
 Germany
MT 125,700 11,216 9.80
23 Incheon
 South Korea
RT 123,500 10,427 9.22
24 Port Hedland
 Australia
MT 110,600 2,100 1.94
25 Dampier
 Australia
MT 110,100 22,172 25.22
26 Klang
 Malaysia
FT 109,700 9,789 9.80
27 Ulsan
 South Korea
RT 103,500 -53,017 -33.87
28 Kitakyushu
 Japan
FT 101,700 -1,545 -1.50
29 Marseille
 France
MT 96,600 2,507 2.66
30 Osaka
 Japan
FT 93,100 -47 -0.05
31 Tubarão
 Brazil
MT 92,700 8,267 9.79
32 Port of Jebel Ali
 United Arab Emirates
MT 92,500 15,120 19.54
33 Tokyo
 Japan
FT 92,000 573 0.63
34 Kobe
 Japan
FT 91,200 5,539 6.47
35 Richards Bay
 South Africa
HT 86,600 1,646 1.94
36 Itaqui
 Brazil
MT 85,900 8,942 11.62
37 Newcastle
 Australia
MT 85,600 2,040 2.44
38 Hay Point
 Australia
MT 81,600 -3,959 -4.63
39 Vancouver
 Canada
MT 76,500 2,926 3.98
40 Huntington
 United States
MT 76,104 5,924 8.44
41 Le Havre
 France
MT 75,000 -1,175 -1.54
42 Amsterdam
 Netherlands
MT 74,900 1,724 2.36
43 Long Beach
 United States
MT 72,447 -237 -0.33
44 Santos
 Brazil
MT 71,900 4,291 6.35
45 Beaumont
 United States
MT 71,566 -11,677 -14.03
46 Novorossiysk
 Russia
MT 70,800
47 Corpus Christi, Texas
 United States
MT 70,441 -1,207 -1.68
48 Gladstone
 Australia
MT 67,200 4,052 6.42
49 Sepetiba
 Brazil
MT 67,100
50 Algeciras
 Spain
MT 63,500 2,206 3.60


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Rank Port Country Measure Tons (000s)[18]
+/- from 2003 % change from 2003
1 Singapore
 Singapore
FT 393,418 45,724 13.15
2 Shanghai
 China
MT 378,962 62,752 19.85
3 Rotterdam
 Netherlands
MT 352,563 25,605 7.83
4 Ningbo
 China
MT 225,850 71,870 46.67
5 Hong Kong
China China
MT 220,879 13,267 6.39
6 Busan
 South Korea
RT 219,760 57,300 35.27
7 Guangzhou
 China
MT 215,190 47,470 28.30
8 Tianjin
 China
MT 206,161 44,341 27.40
9 South Louisiana
 United States
MT 203,517 23,024 12.76
10 Houston
 United States
MT 183,419 10,099 5.83
11 Nagoya
 Japan
FT 182,289 13,911 8.26
12 Chiba
 Japan
FT 169,254 254 0.15
13 Gwangyang
 South Korea
RT 165,875 786 0.48
14 Qingdao
 China
MT 161,650 20,750 14.73
15 Ulsan
 South Korea
RT 156,517 9,577 6.52
16 Kaohsiung
 Republic of China
MT 152,468 13,636 9.82
17 Antwerp
 Belgium
MT 152,327 9,452 6.62
18 Qinhuangdao
 China
MT 150,320 24,700 19.66
19 Dalian
 China
MT 145,162 19,142 15.19
20 New York/New Jersey
 United States
MT 138,328 5,890 4.45
21 Shenzhen
 China
MT 135,246 47,576 54.27
22 Yokohama
 Japan
FT 126,960 1,017 0.81
23 Hamburg
 Germany
MT 114,484 7,948 7.46
24 Incheon
 South Korea
RT 113,073 -17,945 -13.70
25 Port Hedland
 Australia
MT 108,500 18,701 20.83
26 Kitakyushu
 Japan
FT 103,245 14,355 16.15
27 Klang
 Malaysia
FT 99,911 11,023 12.40
28 Marseille
 France
MT 94,093 -1,452 -1.52
29 Osaka
 Japan
FT 93,147 3,460 3.86
30 Tokyo
 Japan
FT 91,427 2,952 3.34
31 Dampier
 Australia
MT 87,928 -952 -1.07
32 Kobe
 Japan
FT 85,661 6,902 8.76
33 Hay Point
 Australia
MT 85,559 8,013 10.33
34 Richards Bay
 South Africa
HT 84,954 -2,567 -2.93
35 Tubarão
 Brazil
MT 84,433 6,812 8.78
36 Newcastle
 Australia
MT 83,560 848 1.03
37 Beaumont
 United States
MT 83,243 3,773 4.75
38 Port of Jebel Ali
 United Arab Emirates
MT 77,380 13,754 21.62
39 Itaqui
 Brazil
MT 76,958 9,367 13.86
40 Le Havre
 France
MT 76,175 4,682 6.55
41 Vancouver
 Canada
MT 73,574 6,847 10.26
42 Amsterdam
 Netherlands
MT 73,176 7,715 11.79
43 Long Beach
 United States
MT 72,684 9,868 15.71
44 Corpus Christi, Texas
 United States
MT 71,648 1,543 2.20
45 New Orleans
 United States
MT 70,886 -5,230 -6.87
46 Huntington
 United States
MT 70,180 -303 -0.43
47 Santos
 Brazil
MT 67,609 7,532 12.54
48 Gladstone
 Australia
MT 63,148 3,487 5.84
49 Texas City
 United States
MT 61,987    
50 Algeciras
 Spain
MT 61,294 4,612 8.14


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Rank Port Country Measure Tons (000s) +/- from 2002 % change from 2002
1 Singapore
 Singapore
FT 347,694 12,538 3.74
2 Rotterdam
 Netherlands
MT 326,958 5,107 1.59
3 Shanghai
 China
MT 316,210 77,604 32.52
4 Hong Kong
China China
MT 207,612 15,102 7.84
5 South Louisiana
 United States
MT 180,493 -15,952 -8.12
6 Houston
 United States
MT 173,320 12,130 7.52
7 Chiba
 Japan
FT 169,000 10,071 6.34
8 Nagoya
 Japan
FT 168,378 10,358 6.55
9 Guangzhou
 China
MT 167,720 27,325 19.46
10 Gwangyang
 South Korea
RT 165,089 11,642 7.59
11 Busan
 South Korea
RT 162,460 18,688 13.00
12 Tianjin
 China
MT 161,820 32,820 25.44
13 Ningbo
 China
MT 153,980 3,980 2.65
14 Ulsan
 South Korea
RT 146,940 -1,472 -0.99
15 Antwerp
 Belgium
MT 142,875 11,246 8.54
16 Qingdao
 China
MT 140,900 20,900 17.42
17 Kaohsiung
 Republic of China
MT 138,832 9,418 7.28
18 New York/New Jersey
 United States
MT 132,438 10,335 8.46
19 Incheon
 South Korea
RT 131,018 -15,163 -10.37
20 Dalian
 China
MT 126,020 18,482 17.19
21 Yokohama
 Japan
FT 125,943 7,871 6.67
22 Qinhuangdao
 China
MT 125,620 4,468 3.69
23 Hamburg
 Germany
MT 106,536 8,264 8.41
24 Marseille
 France
MT 95,545 3,284 3.56
25 Port Hedland
 Australia
MT 89,799 8,041 9.84
26 Osaka
 Japan
FT 89,687 3,188 3.69
27 Kitakyushu
 Japan
FT 88,890 4,641 5.51
28 Klang
 Malaysia
FT 88,888 6,617 8.04
29 Dampier
 Australia
MT 88,880 -3,348 -3.63
30 Tokyo
 Japan
FT 88,475 5,530 6.67
31 Shenzhen
 China
MT 87,670 11,788 15.53
32 Richards Bay
 South Africa
HT 87,521 6,012 7.38
33 Newcastle
 Australia
MT 82,712 5,825 7.58
34 Beaumont
 United States
MT 79,470 1,480 1.90
35 Kobe
 Japan
FT 78,759 158 0.20
36 Tubarão
 Brazil
MT 77,621 1,756 2.31
37 Hay Point
 Australia
MT 77,546 2,874 3.85
38 New Orleans
 United States
MT 76,116 -1,047 -1.36
39 Le Havre
 France
MT 71,493 3,795 5.61
40 Huntington
 United States
MT 70,483 -3,107 -4.22
41 Corpus Christi, Texas
 United States
MT 70,105 4,743 7.26
42 Itaqui
 Brazil
MT 67,591 2,649 4.08
43 Vancouver
 Canada
MT 66,727 3,926 6.25
44 Amsterdam
 Netherlands
MT 65,461 -4,956 -7.04
45 Port of Jebel Ali
 United Arab Emirates
MT 63,626    
46 Long Beach
 United States
MT 62,816 1,201 1.95
47 Santos
 Brazil
MT 60,077 6,603 12.35
48 Gladstone
 Australia
MT 59,661 5,195 9.54
49 Algeciras
 Spain
MT 56,682    
50
Grimsby & Immingham

 United Kingdom
MT 55,931    


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Rank Port Country Measure Tons (000s)
1
Singapore Singapore

 Singapore
MT 335,156
2
Netherlands Rotterdam

 Netherlands
MT 321,851
3
China Shanghai

 China
MT 238,606
4
United States South Louisiana

 United States
MT 196,445
5
China Hong Kong

China China
MT 192,510
6
United States Houston

 United States
MT 161,190
7
Japan Chiba

 Japan
FT 158,929
8
Japan Nagoya

 Japan
FT 158,020
9
South Korea Gwangyang

 South Korea
RT 153,447
10
China Ningbo

 China
MT 150,000
11
South Korea Ulsan

 South Korea
RT 148,412
12
South Korea Incheon

 South Korea
RT 146,181
13
South Korea Busan

 South Korea
RT 143,772
14
China Guangzhou

 China
MT 140,395
15
Belgium Antwerp

 Belgium
MT 131,629
16
Taiwan Kaohsiung

 Taiwan
MT 129,414
17
China Tianjin

 China
MT 129,000
18
United States New York/New Jersey

 United States
MT 122,103
19
China Qinhuangdao

 China
MT 121,152
20
China Qingdao

 China
MT 120,000
21
Japan Yokohama

 Japan
FT 118,072
22
China Dalian

 China
MT 107,538
23
Germany Hamburg

 Germany
MT 98,272
24
France Marseille

 France
MT 92,261
25
Australia Dampier

 Australia
MT 92,228
26
Japan Osaka

 Japan
FT 86,499
27
Japan Kitakyushu

 Japan
FT 84,249
28
Japan Tokyo

 Japan
FT 82,945
29
Malaysia Klang

 Malaysia
FT 82,271
30
Australia Port Hedland

 Australia
MT 81,758
31
South Africa Richards Bay

 South Africa
MT 81,509
32
Japan Kobe

 Japan
FT 78,601
33
United States Beaumont

 United States
MT 77,990
34
United States New Orleans

 United States
MT 77,163
35
Australia Newcastle

 Australia
MT 76,887
36
China Shenzhen

 China
MT 75,882
37
Brazil Tubarão

 Brazil
MT 75,865
38
Australia Hay Point

 Australia
MT 74,672
39
United States Huntington

 United States
MT 73,590
40
Netherlands Amsterdam

 Netherlands
MT 70,417
41
France Le Havre

 France
MT 67,698
42
United States Corpus Christi

 United States
MT 65,362
43
Brazil Itaqui

 Brazil
MT 64,942
44
Russia Novorossiysk

 Russia
MT 63,291
45
Canada Vancouver

 Canada
MT 62,801
46
United States Long Beach

 United States
MT 61,615
47
United States Baton Rouge

 United States
MT 54,997
48
Australia Gladstone

 Australia
MT 54,466
49
United States Plaquemines

 United States
MT 53,661
50
Brazil Santos

 Brazil
MT 53,474


References and notes





  1. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2016


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  3. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2015


  4. ^ "Global Port Development Annual Report (2015)".


  5. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2014


  6. ^ "Global Port Development Annual Report (2014)".


  7. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2013


  8. ^ "Global Port Development Annual Report (2013)".


  9. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2012


  10. ^ "Global Port Development Annual Report (2012)".


  11. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2011


  12. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2010


  13. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2009


  14. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2008


  15. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2007 Archived April 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine


  16. ^ AAPA World Port Rankings 2006


  17. ^ ab AAPA World Port Rankings 2005 (archive link, was dead)


  18. ^ ab AAPA World Port Rankings 2004 (archive link, was dead)




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