LIST OF WORLD'S BUSIEST PORTS BY CARGO TONNAGE

This is a 'list of the world's busiest seaports by cargo tonnage', the total mass of actual cargo transported through the port.

Contents

2005

2004

2003

2002

References

See also

2005

Rank	Port	Country	Measure	Tons(000s)AAPA World Port Rankings 2005	+/- from 2004	% change from 2004
1	Shanghai	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	272,400	46,550	20.61
5	Tianjin	People's Republic of China	MT	245,100	38,939	18.89
6	Guangzhou	People's Republic of China	MT	241,700	26,510	12.32
7	Hong Kong	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	184,300	22,650	14.01
13	Gwangyang	South Korea	RT	177,500	11,625	7.01
14	Dalian	People's Republic of China	MT	176,800	31,638	21.79
15	Qinhuangdao	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	153,900	18,654	13.79
19	New York/New Jersey	United States	MT	138,014	-314	-0.23
20	Kaohsiung	Taiwan (Republic of China)	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	Marseilles	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	Dubai	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	70800
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	67100
50	Algeciras	Spain	MT	63,500	2,206	3.60

2004

Rank	Port	Country	Measure	Tons(000s)	+/- from 2003	% change from 2003
1	Singapore	Singapore	FT	393,418	45,724	13.15
2	Shanghai	People's Republic of China	MT	378,962	62,752	19.85
3	Rotterdam	Netherlands	MT	352,563	25,605	7.83
4	Ningbo	People's Republic of China	MT	225,850	71,870	46.67
5	Hong Kong	People's Republic of China	MT	220,879	13,267	6.39
6	Busan	South Korea	RT	219,760	57,300	35.27
7	Guangzhou	People's Republic of China	MT	215,190	47,470	28.30
8	Tianjin	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	161,650	20,750	14.73
15	Ulsan	South Korea	RT	156,517	9,577	6.52
16	Kaohsiung	Taiwan (Republic of China)	MT	152,468	13,636	9.82
17	Antwerp	Belgium	MT	152,327	9,452	6.62
18	Qinhuangdao	People's Republic of China	MT	150,320	24,700	19.66
19	Dalian	People's Republic of China	MT	145,162	19,142	15.19
20	New York/New Jersey	United States	MT	138,328	5,890	4.45
21	Shenzhen	People's Republic of 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	Marseilles	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	Dubai	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

2003

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	People's Republic of China	MT	316,210	77,604	32.52
4	Hong Kong	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	161,820	32,820	25.44
13	Ningbo	People's Republic of 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	People's Republic of China	MT	140,900	20,900	17.42
17	Kaohsiung	Taiwan (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	People's Republic of China	MT	126,020	18,482	17.19
21	Yokohama	Japan	FT	125,943	7,871	6.67
22	Qinhuangdao	People's Republic of China	MT	125,620	4,468	3.69
23	Hamburg	Germany	MT	106,536	8,264	8.41
24	Marseilles	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	People's Republic of 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	Dubai	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

2002

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

'Note': MT=Metric Tons; HT= Harbor Tons; FT=Freight Tons; RT = Revenue Tons

References

★ AAPA World Port Rankings 2004

★ AAPA World Port Rankings 2003

★ AAPA World Port Rankings 2002

See also

★ World's busiest port by shipping tonnage

★ World's busiest container port

★ World's busiest transshipment port

★ World's busiest bunkering port

★ World's busiest port by cargo value

★ World's busiest port by area

★ List of seaports
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