List of busiest ports by cargo tonnage

2012–2017

Rank	Port	Country		2017 kiloton	2016 kiloton	2015 kiloton	2014 kiloton	2013 kiloton	2012 kiloton
1	Ningbo-Zhoushan		MT	1,077,110	922,092	889,000	873,470	810,000	744,000
2	Shanghai		MT	705,630	647,446	646,514	678,376	696,985	644,659
3	Singapore		FT	626,170	593,297	575,846	581,268	560,888	538,012
4	Suzhou			607,740	573,760
5	Guangzhou		MT	566,190	544,374	475,481	500,975	472,760	438,000
6	Tangshan			565,400	515,800
7	Qingdao		MT	507,990	443,978	476,216	465,055	450,111	407,340
8	Port Hedland		MT	505,330	484,510	452,940	446,922	488,000	288,443
9	Tianjin		MT	502,840	428,098	440,430	445,780	477,399	477,000
10	Rotterdam		MT	467,350	461,177	466,363	444,733	440,464	441,527
11	Dalian		MT	451,050	318,413	320,658	337,366	320,843	303,000
12	Busan		RT	400,510	349,708	347,713	335,411	313,295	298,689
13	Yingkou			362,390	347,020
14	Rizhao			360,020	350,620
15	South Louisiana		MT	307,860	237,594	235,058	242,578	216,445	228,677
16	Gwangyang		RT	291,830	283,106	272,007	134,947	127,642	109,730
17	Yantai			285,600	265,360
18	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	MT	281,550	256,730	256,488	297,737	276,055	269,282
19	Zhanjiang			281,520	255,170
20	Huanghua			269,570	245,110

Rankings 2004–2011

2005

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

2004

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

2003

Rank	Port	Country	Measure	Tons	+/- from 2002	% change from 2002
1	Singapore		FT	347,694	12,538	3.74
2	Rotterdam		MT	326,958	5,107	1.59
3	Shanghai		MT	316,210	77,604	32.52
4	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	MT	207,612	15,102	7.84
5	South Louisiana		MT	180,493	-15,952	-8.12
6	Houston		MT	173,320	12,130	7.52
7	Chiba		FT	169,000	10,071	6.34
8	Nagoya		FT	168,378	10,358	6.55
9	Guangzhou		MT	167,720	27,325	19.46
10	Gwangyang		RT	165,089	11,642	7.59
11	Busan		RT	162,460	18,688	13.00
12	Tianjin		MT	161,820	32,820	25.44
13	Ningbo		MT	153,980	3,980	2.65
14	Ulsan		RT	146,940	-1,472	-0.99
15	Antwerp		MT	142,875	11,246	8.54
16	Qingdao		MT	140,900	20,900	17.42
17	Kaohsiung		MT	138,832	9,418	7.28
18	New York/New Jersey		MT	132,438	10,335	8.46
19	Incheon		RT	131,018	-15,163	-10.37
20	Dalian		MT	126,020	18,482	17.19
21	Yokohama		FT	125,943	7,871	6.67
22	Qinhuangdao		MT	125,620	4,468	3.69
23	Hamburg		MT	106,536	8,264	8.41
24	Marseille		MT	95,545	3,284	3.56
25	Port Hedland		MT	89,799	8,041	9.84
26	Osaka		FT	89,687	3,188	3.69
27	Kitakyushu		FT	88,890	4,641	5.51
28	Klang		FT	88,888	6,617	8.04
29	Dampier		MT	88,880	-3,348	-3.63
30	Tokyo		FT	88,475	5,530	6.67
31	Shenzhen		MT	87,670	11,788	15.53
32	Richards Bay		HT	87,521	6,012	7.38
33	Newcastle		MT	82,712	5,825	7.58
34	Beaumont		MT	79,470	1,480	1.90
35	Kobe		FT	78,759	158	0.20
36	Tubarão		MT	77,621	1,756	2.31
37	Hay Point		MT	77,546	2,874	3.85
38	New Orleans		MT	76,116	-1,047	-1.36
39	Le Havre		MT	71,493	3,795	5.61
40	Huntington		MT	70,483	-3,107	-4.22
41	Corpus Christi, Texas		MT	70,105	4,743	7.26
42	Itaqui		MT	67,591	2,649	4.08
43	Vancouver		MT	66,727	3,926	6.25
44	Amsterdam		MT	65,461	-4,956	-7.04
45	Port of Jebel Ali		MT	63,626
46	Long Beach		MT	62,816	1,201	1.95
47	Santos		MT	60,077	6,603	12.35
48	Gladstone		MT	59,661	5,195	9.54
49	Algeciras		MT	56,682
50	Grimsby & Immingham		MT	55,931

2002

Rank	Port	Country	Measure	Tons
1	Singapore		MT	335,156
2	Rotterdam		MT	321,851
3	Shanghai		MT	238,606
4	South Louisiana		MT	196,445
5	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	MT	192,510
6	Houston		MT	161,190
7	Chiba		FT	158,929
8	Nagoya		FT	158,020
9	Gwangyang		RT	153,447
10	Ningbo		MT	150,000
11	Ulsan		RT	148,412
12	Incheon		RT	146,181
13	Busan		RT	143,772
14	Guangzhou		MT	140,395
15	Antwerp		MT	131,629
16	Kaohsiung		MT	129,414
17	Tianjin		MT	129,000
18	New York/New Jersey		MT	122,103
19	Qinhuangdao		MT	121,152
20	Qingdao		MT	120,000
21	Yokohama		FT	118,072
22	Dalian		MT	107,538
23	Hamburg		MT	98,272
24	Marseille		MT	92,261
25	Dampier		MT	92,228
26	Osaka		FT	86,499
27	Kitakyushu		FT	84,249
28	Tokyo		FT	82,945
29	Klang		FT	82,271
30	Port Hedland		MT	81,758
31	Richards Bay		MT	81,509
32	Kobe		FT	78,601
33	Beaumont		MT	77,990
34	New Orleans		MT	77,163
35	Newcastle		MT	76,887
36	Shenzhen		MT	75,882
37	Tubarão		MT	75,865
38	Hay Point		MT	74,672
39	Huntington		MT	73,590
40	Amsterdam		MT	70,417
41	Le Havre		MT	67,698
42	Corpus Christi		MT	65,362
43	Itaqui		MT	64,942
44	Novorossiysk		MT	63,291
45	Vancouver		MT	62,801
46	Long Beach		MT	61,615
47	Baton Rouge		MT	54,997
48	Gladstone		MT	54,466
49	Plaquemines		MT	53,661
50	Santos		MT	53,474