Busiest Airports by Cargo Traffic 2025
Key Findings
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Hong Kong (HKG) leads in Air Cargo Handled (tonnes) with 5,070,256 in 2025.
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Average Air Cargo Handled (tonnes) in 2025: 3,302,304 · median: 3,048,834.
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Gap in 2025: Hong Kong (HKG) is 2.1× larger than Guangzhou Baiyun (CAN).
About This Dataset
Busiest Airports by Cargo Traffic 2025
Total freight and mail handled in 2025, in metric tonnes, counting loaded and unloaded cargo and transit freight counted once. Because transfer freight counts wherever it touches down, hub airports used mainly for sorting rank far above the size of the cities they sit in.
Analysis
Hong Kong International Airport handled 5,070,256 tonnes in 2025, 1.24 times the 4,096,016 tonnes of Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The 10 airports here moved 33,023,035 tonnes between them. 4 of the 10 are in the United States (ANC, SDF, MIA and MEM) and 4 in Greater China. The gap from first to last on this chart is 2.1x.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Airports Council International, via Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2025 · 10 observations
- Measure
- Air Cargo Handled (tonnes)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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