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Busiest Ports This Week
Top 60 ports by real ship calls · 29 Aug – 4 Sep 2026
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Port
Calls · 7d
Weekly change
1
Shanghai China · 10M t moved
630
▲ 41.9%
2
Ningbo China · 12M t moved
382
▲ 59.8%
3
Antwerp Belgium · 4M t moved
367
▲ 0.5%
4
Chiba Japan · 1M t moved
256
▲ 3.2%
5
Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR · 5M t moved
252
▼ 6.0%
6
Tianjin Xin Gang China · 11M t moved
234
▲ 25.1%
7
Qingdao Port China · 9M t moved
196
▼ 12.5%
8
Kobe Japan · 1M t moved
196
▼ 12.1%
9
Guangzhou (Nansha) China · 1M t moved
177
▼ 1.7%
10
Tanjung Priok Indonesia · 1M t moved
176
▼ 1.1%
11
Mumbai-Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) India · 3M t moved
169
▲ 9.7%
12
Suzhou (Taicang) China · 3M t moved
162
▲ 42.1%
13
Zhoushan China · 3M t moved
152
▲ 192.3%
14
Xiamen China · 5M t moved
145
▲ 12.4%
15
Dalian China · 2M t moved
140
▲ 21.7%
16
Kawasaki Japan · 0M t moved
136
▼ 6.8%
17
Ghent Belgium · 1M t moved
124
▲ 5.1%
18
Surabaya Indonesia · 0M t moved
112
▼ 7.4%
19
Kitakyushu (Wakamatsu) Japan · 0M t moved
111
▼ 20.7%
20
Funabashi Japan · 0M t moved
110
▲ 1.9%
21
Kashima-Ibaraki Japan · 1M t moved
110
▼ 2.7%
22
Santos Brazil · 3M t moved
109
▲ 7.9%
23
Higashiharima Japan · 0M t moved
109
▲ 11.2%
24
Kanda Japan · 0M t moved
107
▲ 5.9%
25
Hamburg Germany · 2M t moved
104
▼ 2.8%
26
Qinzhou China · 2M t moved
101
▲ 62.9%
27
Hakata Japan · 0M t moved
101
0%
28
Gresik Indonesia · 0M t moved
100
▲ 3.1%
29
Himeji Japan · 0M t moved
99
▲ 23.8%
30
Piraeus Greece · 1M t moved
98
0%
31
Qiwei China · 2M t moved
97
▲ 73.2%
32
Fukuyama Japan · 0M t moved
90
▼ 8.2%
33
Zeebrugge Belgium · 0M t moved
89
▲ 17.1%
34
Jiangyin China · 1M t moved
89
▲ 30.9%
35
Shougang Jingtang China · 6M t moved
84
▼ 17.6%
36
Shanghai (Yangshan) China · 6M t moved
82
▲ 17.1%
37
Mundra India · 2M t moved
79
▲ 14.5%
38
Lianyungang China · 3M t moved
76
▲ 1.3%
39
Bremerhaven Germany · 1M t moved
75
▼ 25.0%
40
Nantong China · 1M t moved
73
▲ 52.1%
41
Cartagena Colombia · 1M t moved
71
▼ 5.3%
42
Mawan China · 1M t moved
70
▼ 12.5%
43
Le Havre France · 2M t moved
70
▲ 1.4%
44
Yantian China · 1M t moved
68
▲ 1.5%
45
Banjarmasin Indonesia · 1M t moved
68
▲ 15.3%
46
Dumai Indonesia · 1M t moved
67
▲ 42.6%
47
Hiroshima Japan · 0M t moved
67
▼ 2.9%
48
Xiagong China · 2M t moved
65
▲ 140.7%
49
Rio De Janeiro Brazil · 1M t moved
64
▼ 9.9%
50
Alexandria Egypt · 1M t moved
63
▲ 3.3%
51
Rizhao China · 3M t moved
62
▼ 4.6%
52
Port Hedland Australia · 9M t moved
59
▼ 6.3%
53
Genova Italy · 1M t moved
58
▲ 3.6%
54
Kisarazu Japan · 1M t moved
58
▼ 12.1%
55
Fuzhou China · 1M t moved
57
▲ 78.1%
56
Yangpu China · 1M t moved
57
▲ 39.0%
57
Visakhapatnam India · 2M t moved
57
▲ 14.0%
58
Shekou (Shenzhen) China · 5M t moved
56
▲ 14.3%
59
Huanghua China · 3M t moved
55
▼ 27.6%
60
Dongjiakou China · 3M t moved
53
▲ 17.8%
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: 2026-09-04.
