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Busiest Ports This Week
Top 60 ports by real ship calls · 19 Sep – 25 Sep 2026
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Port
Calls · 7d
Weekly change
1
Shanghai China · 8M t moved
523
▼ 1.7%
2
Antwerp Belgium · 5M t moved
395
▲ 11.9%
3
Ningbo China · 11M t moved
314
▼ 13.5%
4
Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR · 4M t moved
256
▼ 6.2%
5
Tianjin Xin Gang China · 10M t moved
209
▼ 4.1%
6
Qingdao Port China · 8M t moved
201
▲ 4.7%
7
Guangzhou (Nansha) China · 1M t moved
190
▼ 10.4%
8
Chiba Japan · 1M t moved
190
▼ 26.4%
9
Tanjung Priok Indonesia · 1M t moved
179
▼ 6.3%
10
Kobe Japan · 1M t moved
179
▼ 19.0%
11
Mumbai-Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) India · 3M t moved
170
▼ 2.3%
12
Suzhou (Taicang) China · 2M t moved
159
▲ 2.6%
13
Dalian China · 1M t moved
126
▲ 9.6%
14
Xiamen China · 4M t moved
126
▼ 11.9%
15
Ghent Belgium · 1M t moved
118
▲ 11.3%
16
Kitakyushu (Wakamatsu) Japan · 0M t moved
112
▼ 5.9%
17
Hamburg Germany · 2M t moved
108
▼ 6.1%
18
Surabaya Indonesia · 0M t moved
107
▼ 11.6%
19
Kawasaki Japan · 0M t moved
107
▼ 21.9%
20
Gresik Indonesia · 0M t moved
102
▼ 13.6%
21
Zhoushan China · 2M t moved
100
▼ 11.5%
22
Shougang Jingtang China · 6M t moved
99
▲ 2.1%
23
Santos Brazil · 3M t moved
98
▼ 12.5%
24
Kanda Japan · 0M t moved
97
▼ 6.7%
25
Hakata Japan · 0M t moved
95
▼ 5.0%
26
Nantong China · 1M t moved
93
▲ 20.8%
27
Qiwei China · 2M t moved
93
▲ 2.2%
28
Kashima-Ibaraki Japan · 1M t moved
93
▲ 1.1%
29
Jiangyin China · 2M t moved
92
▼ 5.2%
30
Bremerhaven Germany · 1M t moved
91
▲ 11.0%
31
Piraeus Greece · 1M t moved
91
▼ 10.8%
32
Huanghua China · 4M t moved
86
▲ 22.9%
33
Qinzhou China · 2M t moved
86
▲ 6.2%
34
Zeebrugge Belgium · 0M t moved
85
▼ 4.5%
35
Mawan China · 1M t moved
85
▼ 5.6%
36
Higashiharima Japan · 0M t moved
84
▲ 9.1%
37
Cartagena Colombia · 1M t moved
82
▲ 12.3%
38
Shanghai (Yangshan) China · 6M t moved
79
▼ 2.5%
39
Fukuyama Japan · 1M t moved
79
▼ 22.5%
40
Lianyungang China · 3M t moved
77
▲ 1.3%
41
Le Havre France · 1M t moved
75
▼ 1.3%
42
Funabashi Japan · 0M t moved
75
▼ 33.6%
43
Himeji Japan · 0M t moved
72
▲ 9.1%
44
Banjarmasin Indonesia · 1M t moved
71
▲ 20.3%
45
Port Hedland Australia · 11M t moved
69
▲ 6.2%
46
Mundra India · 1M t moved
68
▲ 3.0%
47
Rio De Janeiro Brazil · 1M t moved
67
▼ 1.5%
48
Bayuquan China · 2M t moved
66
▲ 10.0%
49
Tangshan (Jingtang) China · 3M t moved
66
▲ 3.1%
50
Dumai Indonesia · 1M t moved
66
▲ 37.5%
51
Genova Italy · 1M t moved
64
▲ 18.5%
52
Hiroshima Japan · 0M t moved
64
▼ 13.5%
53
Yantian China · 1M t moved
62
▼ 8.8%
54
Alexandria Egypt · 1M t moved
60
▼ 1.6%
55
Kandla India · 1M t moved
60
▲ 5.3%
56
Lanqiao Port China · 3M t moved
59
▼ 16.9%
57
Rizhao China · 1M t moved
58
▲ 5.5%
58
Dublin Ireland · 1M t moved
57
▲ 18.8%
59
Makassar Indonesia · 0M t moved
56
▲ 7.7%
60
Palembang Indonesia · 1M t moved
55
▲ 14.6%
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: 2026-09-25.
