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Busiest Ports This Week
Top 60 ports by real ship calls · 8 Aug – 14 Aug 2026
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Port
Calls · 7d
Weekly change
1
Antwerp Belgium · 5M t moved
384
▲ 5.5%
2
Shanghai China · 5M t moved
336
▼ 37.4%
3
Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR · 4M t moved
273
▼ 3.5%
4
Ningbo China · 9M t moved
248
▼ 13.9%
5
Tianjin Xin Gang China · 9M t moved
209
▲ 3.0%
6
Qingdao Port China · 8M t moved
203
▼ 6.5%
7
Chiba Japan · 1M t moved
202
▼ 4.3%
8
Guangzhou (Nansha) China · 1M t moved
187
▼ 9.2%
9
Tanjung Priok Indonesia · 1M t moved
182
▼ 2.7%
10
Kobe Japan · 1M t moved
175
▼ 17.5%
11
Mumbai India · 3M t moved
162
▲ 8.7%
12
Kawasaki Japan · 0M t moved
124
▲ 0.8%
13
Xiamen China · 3M t moved
120
▼ 25.0%
14
Zhoushan China · 2M t moved
120
▲ 62.2%
15
Surabaya Indonesia · 0M t moved
116
▼ 4.9%
16
Hamburg Germany · 3M t moved
110
▼ 6.8%
17
Dalian China · 1M t moved
105
▼ 24.5%
18
Shougang Jingtang China · 6M t moved
105
▲ 9.4%
19
Ghent Belgium · 0M t moved
101
▼ 8.2%
20
Bremerhaven Germany · 1M t moved
100
▲ 8.7%
21
Kitakyushu (Wakamatsu) Japan · 0M t moved
97
▼ 21.8%
22
Piraeus Greece · 1M t moved
95
▼ 14.4%
23
Gresik Indonesia · 0M t moved
91
▼ 11.7%
24
Mawan China · 1M t moved
90
▲ 4.7%
25
Suzhou (Taicang) China · 1M t moved
88
▲ 6.0%
26
Santos Brazil · 2M t moved
86
▼ 13.1%
27
Qinzhou China · 1M t moved
84
▲ 21.7%
28
Hakata Japan · 0M t moved
81
▼ 29.6%
29
Zeebrugge Belgium · 0M t moved
78
▼ 7.1%
30
Cartagena Colombia · 1M t moved
78
▲ 18.2%
31
Huanghua China · 4M t moved
77
▲ 8.5%
32
Mundra India · 2M t moved
74
▲ 15.6%
33
Banjarmasin Indonesia · 1M t moved
74
▲ 10.4%
34
Himeji Japan · 0M t moved
73
▼ 26.3%
35
Funabashi Japan · 0M t moved
72
▼ 5.3%
36
Shekou (Shenzhen) China · 6M t moved
69
▲ 3.0%
37
Yantian China · 1M t moved
68
▼ 5.6%
38
Le Havre France · 1M t moved
68
▲ 1.5%
39
Port Hedland Australia · 10M t moved
67
▲ 15.5%
40
Lianyungang China · 2M t moved
67
▼ 2.9%
41
Kanda Japan · 0M t moved
65
▼ 37.5%
42
Kashima-Ibaraki Japan · 0M t moved
64
▲ 6.7%
43
Tangshan (Jingtang) China · 3M t moved
62
▲ 8.8%
44
Fukuyama Japan · 0M t moved
62
▼ 34.0%
45
Higashiharima Japan · 0M t moved
62
▼ 33.3%
46
Damietta Egypt · 1M t moved
60
▲ 20.0%
47
Nantong China · 1M t moved
59
▲ 25.5%
48
Rio De Janeiro Brazil · 0M t moved
58
▼ 9.4%
49
Genova Italy · 1M t moved
58
▼ 4.9%
50
Haifa Israel · 0M t moved
56
▲ 14.3%
51
Baku Port Azerbaijan · 0M t moved
55
0%
52
Bayuquan China · 1M t moved
54
▼ 3.6%
53
Balikpapan Indonesia · 1M t moved
54
▲ 8.0%
54
Dumai Indonesia · 1M t moved
53
▼ 14.5%
55
Qiwei China · 1M t moved
52
▼ 23.5%
56
Kandla India · 1M t moved
52
▲ 15.6%
57
Fuzhou China · 1M t moved
51
▲ 15.9%
58
Rizhao China · 2M t moved
51
▼ 15.0%
59
Iwakuni Japan · 0M t moved
50
▼ 3.8%
60
Shanghai (Yangshan) China · 3M t moved
49
▼ 23.4%
Source: IMF PortWatch (International Monetary Fund & University of Oxford) · real ship calls from satellite AIS data, updated daily with a few days’ delay · latest data: 2026-08-14.
