World's Busiest Container Ports — 2024 TEU
Top 20 ports processed 460M containers in 2024. China alone accounts for 40%+ of global container traffic — 5 of the top 6 ports are Chinese (Shanghai 51.5M · Ningbo-Zhoushan 39.3M · Shenzhen 33.4M · Qingdao 30.9M · Guangzhou 26.1M), led by Shanghai (handling ~10M more TEU than #2 Singapore 41.1M). Rotterdam (13.8M, #11) is the busiest non-Asian port. The US giants — LA (10.3M, #16) and Long Beach (9.6M, #19) — sit far behind. Only Tanger-Med (Morocco, #17) represents Africa; no Latin American port makes the global top 20.