List of World's Busiest Ports By Cargo Tonnage - 2005

2005

Rank Port Country Measure Tons (000s) +/- 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 Qinghuangdao 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 70,800
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 67,100
50 Algeciras Spain MT 63,500 2,206 3.60

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