Top 50 World Container Ports
| Rank | Port | Volume 2018 (Million TEU) | Volume 2017 (Million TEU) | Volume 2016 (Million TEU) | Volume 2015 (Million TEU) | Volume 2014 (Million TEU) | Website |
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1 |
Shanghai, China | 42.01 | 40.23 | 37.13 | 36.54 | 35.29 | |
| 2 | Singapore | 36.60 | 33.67 | 30.90 | 30.92 | 33.87 | English |
| 3 | Shenzhen, China | 27.74 | 25.21 | 23.97 | 24.20 | 24.03 | Chinese |
| 4 | Ningbo-Zhoushan, China | 26.35 | 24.61 | 21.60 | 20.63 | 19.45 | English Chinese |
| 5 | Guangzhou Harbor, China | 21.87 | 20.37 | 18.85 | 17.22 | 16.16 | English Chinese |
| 6 | Busan, South Korea | 21.66 | 20.49 | 19.85 | 19.45 | 18.65 | English Korean Chinese Japanese |
| 7 | Hong Kong, S.A.R, China | 19.60 | 20.76 | 19.81 | 20.07 | 22.23 | English Chinese |
| 8 | Qingdao, China | 18.26 | 18.30 | 18.01 | 17.47 | 16.62 | English Chinese |
| 9 | Tianjin, China | 16.00 | 15.07 | 14.49 | 14.11 | 14.05 | English China |
| 10 | Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 14.95 | 15.37 | 15.73 | 15.60 | 15.25 | English Arabic |
| 11 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 14.51 | 13.73 | 12.38 | 12.23 | 12.30 | English Dutch Deutsch Chinese |
| 12 | Port Klang, Malaysia | 12.32 | 13.73 | 13.20 | 11.89 | 10.95 | English Bahasa Malaysia |
| 13 | Antwerp, Belgium | 11.10 | 10.45 | 10.04 | 9.65 | 8.98 | English Nederlands Chinese |
| 14 | Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China | 10.45 | 10.27 | 10.46 | 10.26 | 10.59 | English Chinese |
| 15 | Xiamen, China | 10.00 | 10.38 | 9.61 | 9.18 | 10.13 | Chinese |
| 16 | Dalian, China | 9.77 | 9.70 | 9.61 | 9.45 | 10.13 | English Chinese |
| 17 | Los Angeles, U.S.A | 9.46 | 9.43 | 8.86 | 8.16 | 8.33 | English |
| 18 | Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia | 8.96 | 8.38 | 8.28 | 9.10 | 8.50 | English |
| 19 | Hamburg, Germany | 8.73 | 8.86 | 8.91 | 8.82 | 9.73 | English Deutsch Chinese |
| 20 | Long Beach, U.S.A. | 8.09 | 7.54 | 6.80 | 7.19 | 6.82 | English |
| 21 | Laem Chabang, Thailand | 8.07 | 7.78 | 7.22 | 6.82 | 6.58 | English Thai |
| Keihin Ports, Japan* | 7.98 | 7.61 | 7.52 | 7.85 | English Japanese Chinese Español | ||
| 22 | Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Indonesia | 7.64 | 6.09 | 5.51 | 5.20 | 5.77 | Select language at site |
| 23 | New York-New Jersey, U.S.A. | 7.20 | 6.71 | 6.25 | 6.37 | 5.77 | English |
| 24 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 7.05 | 6.21 | 5.73 | 5.19 | 4.91 | English |
| 25 | Yingkou, China | 6.50 | 6.28 | 6.08 | 5.92 | 5.77 | English Chinese |
| 26 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 6.33 | 6.16 | 5.99 | 5.31 | 6.39 | English Vietnamese |
| 27 |
Bremen/Bremerhaven, Germany |
5.42 | 5.51 | 5.49 | 5.48 | 5.78 | English Deutsch |
| Hanshin Port, Japan** | 5.22 | 5.02 | 4.93 | 5.32 | English Japanese | ||
| 28 | Manila, Philippines | 5.05 | 4.82 | 4.52 | 4.23 | 3.65 | English |
| 29 | Jawarharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva), India | 5.05 | 4.83 | 4.51 | 4.49 | 4.45 | English Hindi |
| 30 | Piraeus, Greece | 4.91 | 4.15 | 3.73 | 3.37 | 3.59 | |
| 31 | Algeciras, Spain | 4.77 | 4.39 | 4.76 | 4.52 | 4.56 | English Español Français |
| 32 | Lianyunguang, China | 4.75 | 4.72 | 4.70 | 5.01 | 5.01 | Chinese |
| 33 | Tokyo, Japan | 4.57 | 4.50 | 4.25 | -- | -- | English Chinese Korean Japanese |
| 34 | Mundra, India | 4.44 | 4.24 | 4.80 | 2.99 | 2.70 | English |
| 35 | Savannah, U.S.A | 4.35 | 4.05 | 3.64 | 3.74 | 3.35 | English |
| 36 | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 4.12 | 4.15 | 3.96 | 4.19 | 4.20 | English Arabic |
| 37 | Santos, Brazil | 4.12 | 3.85 | 3.60 | 3.78 | 3.68 | Português |
| 38 | Rizhao, China | 4.00 | 3.24 | 3.01 | -- | -- | English Chinese |
| 39 | Colon, Panama | 3.89 | 3.89 | 3.26 | 3.58 | 3.29 | Español |
| 40 | Felixstowe, U.K. | 3.85 | 4.30 | 4.10 | 4.00 | 3.74 | English |
| 41*** | Seattle-Tacoma NW Seaport Alliance, U.S.A. | 3.80 | 3.70 | 3.62 | 3.53 | 3.43 | |
| 42 | Dongguan, China | 3.50 | 3.91 | 3.64 | -- | -- | Chinese |
| 43 | Tanger Med, Morocco | 3.47 | 3.31 | 2.96 | -- | -- | English Français |
| 44 | Barcelona, Spain | 3.42 | 2.97 | 2.23 | -- | -- | Select language at site |
| 45 | Vancouver, Canada | 3.40 | 3.25 | 2.92 | -- | -- | English Français |
| 46 | Salalah, Oman | 3.39 | 3.94 | 3.32 | 2.57 | 2.96 | English |
| 47 | Fuzhou, China | 3.34 | 3.01 | 2.66 | -- | -- | Chinese |
| 48 | Marsaxlokk, Malta | 3.31 | 3.15 | 3.08 | 3.06 | 2.90 | English |
| 49 | Nanjing, China | 3.23 | 3.17 | 3.08 | 2.94 | -- | Chinese |
| 50 | Cai Mep, Vietnam | 3.20 | 3.07 | 2.56 | -- | -- | English |
*Keihin Ports is Japan's superport hub on the Tokyo Bay and includes Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Tokyo. No data avaliable for 2018 as of July 2019.
**Hanshin Ports is Japan's superport hub on the Osaka Bay and includes Kobe, Lsaka, Sakai-Semboku and Amafasaki-Nishinomiya-Ashiya. No data avaliable for 2018 as of July 2019.
***In October of 2014 the Port of Tacoma and Port of Seattle announced an agreement to opperate jointly.
Note: Represents total port throughput, included loaded and empty TEU.
Source data: The Journal of Commerce annual Top 50 World Container Ports, Lloyd's List annual Top 100 Ports, AAPA World Port Rankings, Drewry World Container Traffic Port Handling and individual port websites, American Journal of Transportation Top 100 ports (Retrieved at: https://www.ajot.com/premium/ajot-ajots-top-100-containerports-a-to-z/P0)