List of countries by container port traffic

Last updated October 29, 2024

The following list sorts countries and territories by volume of container port traffic in Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) according to data from the World Bank.^[1]

Rank	Country / Region	Container port traffic in TEUs	Year
1	China	268,990,000	2022
2	United States	62,214,119	2022
3	Singapore	37,289,600	2022
4	South Korea	28,502,044	2022
5	Malaysia	27,293,935	2022
6	Japan	22,515,870	2022
7	Vietnam	20,518,926	2022
8	United Arab Emirates	20,300,000	2022
9	India	19,717,168	2022
10	Spain	17,161,676	2022
11	Hong Kong	16,573,000	2022
12	Netherlands	14,929,333	2022
13	Germany	13,733,867	2022
14	Indonesia	12,380,584	2022
15	Turkey	12,366,172	2022
16	Belgium	12,303,822	2022
17	Brazil	11,683,239	2022
18	Italy	11,577,495	2022
19	Thailand	10,497,112	2022
20	Saudi Arabia	10,459,765	2022
21	United Kingdom	9,738,676	2022
22	Australia	9,375,992	2022
23	Philippines	9,249,451	2022
24	Morocco	8,835,181	2022
25	Panama	8,518,425	2022
26	Mexico	8,307,884	2022
27	Egypt	7,765,482	2022
28	Canada	7,010,704	2022
29	Sri Lanka	6,860,000	2022
30	France	6,467,242	2022
31	Oman	5,228,456	2022
32	Greece	5,166,629	2022
33	Colombia	4,480,670	2022
34	Chile	4,158,260	2022
35	South Africa	4,053,350	2022
36	Russia	3,914,304	2022
37	New Zealand	3,426,030	2022
38	Pakistan	3,383,580	2022
39	Bangladesh	3,200,236	2022
40	Poland	3,061,848	2022
41	Malta	2,993,799	2022
42	Israel	2,951,000	2022
43	Peru	2,865,239	2022
44	Portugal	2,794,454	2022
45	Ecuador	2,682,600	2022
46	Jamaica	2,137,500	2022
47	Dominican Republic	2,043,326	2022
48	Togo	1,952,879	2022
49	Bahamas	1,724,000	2022
50	Argentina	1,667,161	2022
51	Guatemala	1,660,504	2022
52	Sweden	1,631,248	2022
53	Costa Rica	1,594,323	2022
54	Nigeria	1,566,109	2022
55	Algeria	1,553,362	2021
56	Iran	1,550,304	2021
57	Qatar	1,543,600	2021
58	Puerto Rico	1,490,218	2021
59	Kenya	1,450,000	2022
60	Finland	1,446,004	2022
61	Ghana	1,244,245	2022
62	Ireland	1,154,803	2022
63	Myanmar	1,090,000	2021
64	Uruguay	1,080,445	2022
65	Denmark	1,079,649	2022
66	Lithuania	1,047,941	2022
67	Ukraine	1,022,376	2021
68	Slovenia	1,017,788	2022
69	Ivory Coast	1,015,624	2021
70	Republic of the Congo	1,003,734	2021
71	Iraq	932,729	2019
72	Norway	881,238	2021
73	Kuwait	863,618	2020
74	Honduras	772,871	2021
75	Jordan	765,662	2021
76	Tanzania	709,881	2020
77	Senegal	696,899	2020
78	Lebanon	675,077	2021
79	Angola	654,590	2022
80	Djibouti	635,000	2022
81	Romania	631,964	2021
82	Cambodia	600,107	2020
83	Georgia	553,302	2020
84	Croatia	544,015	2022
85	Benin	510,896	2019
86	Tunisia	469,568	2021
87	Sudan	469,526	2019
88	Mozambique	440,582	2021
89	Mauritius	438,078	2020
90	Latvia	434,388	2021
91	South Sudan	430,000	2011
92	Yemen	418,711	2021
93	Trinidad and Tobago	410,395	2021
94	Bahrain	404,904	2021
95	Cameroon	366,667	2020
96	Cuba	322,000	2019
97	Cyprus	319,131	2021
98	Iceland	297,263	2020
99	El Salvador	294,326	2021
100	Austria	285,900	2017
101	Libya	271,231	2019
102	Guinea	250,000	2020
103	Bulgaria	245,160	2021
104	Syria	243,348	2020
105	Estonia	227,000	2021
106	Papua New Guinea	204,518	2020
107	Madagascar	199,713	2019
108	Gabon	180,000	2020
109	Venezuela	179,529	2019
110	Haiti	177,043	2020
111	Nicaragua	172,544	2021
112	Seychelles	154,423	2019
113	Namibia	154,207	2021
114	Fiji	145,782	2019
115	Albania	145,762	2019
116	Solomon Islands	128,036	2019
117	Switzerland	114,075	2020
118	New Caledonia	111,875	2019
119	Suriname	109,200	2019
120	Maldives	107,728	2019
121	Brunei	106,174	2020
122	Sint Maarten	105,200	2019
123	Barbados	93,899	2021
124	Curaçao	92,640	2021
125	Somalia	92,238	2019
126	Liberia	91,454	2019
127	Guam	84,954	2020
128	Mauritania	84,458	2019
129	Cape Verde	79,754	2021
130	Sierra Leone	78,413	2019
131	Vanuatu	77,436	2019
132	Tonga	76,854	2019
133	American Samoa	76,215	2019
134	Gambia	71,470	2019
135	French Polynesia	69,166	2019
136	Cayman Islands	64,765	2019
137	Guyana	58,377	2020
138	Aruba	57,062	2021
139	Comoros	54,359	2019
140	East Timor	53,289	2019
141	Kiribati	52,100	2019
142	São Tomé and Príncipe	49,553	2019
143	British Virgin Islands	45,956	2019
144	Northern Mariana Islands	44,952	2019
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	42,211	2019
146	Samoa	41,200	2020
147	Saint Lucia	39,238	2019
148	Paraguay	37,901	2020
149	Faroe Islands	31,214	2019
150	Marshall Islands	30,711	2019
151	Guinea-Bissau	28,700	2019
152	Antigua and Barbuda	27,657	2019
153	Eritrea	27,453	2019
154	Federated States of Micronesia	25,234	2019
155	Grenada	22,117	2021
156	Belize	20,259	2019
157	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18,222	2020
158	Palau	16,399	2019
159	Montenegro	15,744	2019
160	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13,560	2020
161	Gibraltar	10,870	2019
162	Equatorial Guinea	9,951	2019
163	Moldova	8,646	2023
164	Dominica	7,401	2020
165	Greenland	6,145	2019
166	Nauru	5,327	2019
167	Tuvalu	5,150	2019
168	Bermuda	4,006	2019
	World	839,847,482	2022

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