World's Busiest Container Ports 2024
About This Dataset
World's Busiest Container Ports 2024
Ports ranked by total container throughput in 2024, measured in millions of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Shanghai has been the world's busiest container port for over a decade, handling nearly 50 million TEU annually — a figure that reflects China's extraordinary role as the world's manufacturing hub and the port's position as a gateway to the Yangtze River economic belt serving 400 million people.
Analysis
Shanghai (China) (49.2), Singapore (39) and Ningbo-Zhoushan (China) (35.5) take the top three in Container Traffic (Million TEU) in 2024. Values run from 49.2 at the top to 14.5 at the bottom, a spread of 34.7. First and second are separated by 10.2, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 35.5 down to 14.5.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Shanghai (China) leads in Container Traffic (Million TEU) with 49.20 in 2024.
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Average Container Traffic (Million TEU) in 2024: 30 · median: 28.
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Gap in 2024: Shanghai (China) is 3.4× larger than Hong Kong.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Container Traffic (Million TEU)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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