February 2025 TEUs

February Inbound Loaded | February Outbound Loaded | February YTD | USWC Shares Mainland Ports | USWC Shares East Asia

February 2025 Inbound Loaded

Port	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	413,236	408,764	348,316	1.1%	18.6%
Long Beach	368,669	329,850	302,865	11.8%	21.7%
San Pedro Bay Total	781,905	738,614	651,181	5.9%	20.1%
Oakland	80,582	76,734	69,977	5.0%	15.2%
NWSA	104,652	81,823	99,669	27.9%	5.0%
Hueneme	11,254	10,014	4,696	12.4%	139.7%
San Diego	5,912	6,050	6,036	-2.3%	-2.1%
USWC Total	984,305	913,235	831,559	7.8%	18.4%
Boston	11,768	10,658	12,057	10.4%	-2.4%
NYNJ	356,918	332,239	295,523	7.4%	20.8%
Philadelphia	35,971	30,724	19,855	17.1%	81.2%
Baltimore	44,158	45,641	42,287	-3.2%	4.4%
Virginia	112,357	130,965	105,357	-14.2%	6.6%
Charleston	112,487	124,831	77,667	8.0%	44.8%
Savannah	235,971	218,997	149,685	7.8%	57.6%
Jaxport	28,266	31,488	25,702	-10.2%	10.0%
Port Everglades	32,560	28,414	27,361	14.6%	19.0%
Port Miami	43,925	44,523	32,125	-1.3%	36.7%
USEC Total	1,014,381	998,480	787,619	1.6%	28.8%
New Orleans	10,955	9,232	7,393	18.7%	48.2%
Houston	142,661	166,849	86,953	-14.5%	64.1%
USGC Total	153,616	176,081	94,346	-12.8%	62.8%
Vancouver	126,468	153,778	129,494	-17.8%	-2.3%
Prince Rupert	24,914	30,342	34,758	-17.9%	-28.3%
British Columbia Total	151,382	184,120	164,252	-17.8%	-7.8%
U.S. Ports Total	2,152,302	2,087,796	1,713,524	3.1%	25.6%

February 2025 Outbound Loaded

Port	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	109,156	132,755	142,555	-17.8%	-23.4%
Long Beach	90,026	87,474	105,287	2.9%	-14.5%
San Pedro Bay Totals	199,182	220,229	247,842	-9.6%	-19.6%
Oakland	65,522	69,242	67,837	-5.4%	-3.4%
NWSA	46,267	50,160	65,610	-7.8%	-29.5%
Hueneme	2,170	2,012	1,174	7.9%	84.8%
San Diego	618	478	164	29.3%	276.8%
USWC Totals	313,759	342,121	382,627	-8.3%	-18.0%
Boston	5,159	5,686	5,858	-9.3%	-11.9%
NYNJ	107,335	101,636	113,358	5.6%	-5.3%
Philadelphia	6,642	5,876	5,467	13.0%	21.5%
Baltimore	15,131	19,554	18,556	-22.6%	-18.5%
Virginia	82,660	99,969	76,642	-17.3%	7.9%
Charleston	53,205	59,639	62,086	-10.8%	-14.3%
Savannah	126,924	121,933	105,260	4.1%	20.6%
Jaxport	41,159	40,751	38,837	1.0%	6.0%
Port Everglades	37,088	33,015	32,664	12.3%	13.5%
Port Miami	21,615	22,962	30,627	-5.9%	-29.4%
USEC Totals	496,918	511,021	489,355	-2.8%	1.5%
New Orleans	23,588	21,934	18,718	7.5%	26.0%
Houston	122,740	145,766	86,460	-15.8%	42.0%
USGC Totals	146,328	167,700	105,178	-12.7%	39.1%
Vancouver	57,340	66,482	92,869	-13.8%	-38.3%
Prince Rupert	8,196	9,322	11,677	-12.1%	-29.8%
British Columbia Totals	65,536	75,804	104,546	-13.5%	-37.3%
U.S. Ports Total	957,005	1,020,842	977,160	-6.3%	-2.1%

February 2025 Year-to-Date TEUs

Port	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	1,725,643	1,637,086	1,557,757	5.4%	10.8%
Long Beach	1,718,118	1,348,738	1,253,903	27.4%	37.0%
NYNJ	1,419,987	1,299,799	1,207,747	9.2%	17.6%
Savannah	898,068	879,709	742,121	2.1%	21.0%
Houston	681,831	708,831	412,446	-3.8%	65.3%
Vancouver	581,664	553,213	573,358	5.1%	1.4%
NWSA	522,574	437,887	595,461	19.3%	-12.2%
Virginia	513,214	588,594	468,262	-12.8%	9.6%
Oakland	384,112	363,237	298,178	5.7%	28.8%
JaxPort	226,852	216,977	220,934	4.6%	2.7%
Charleston	225,374	202,349	178,131	11.4%	26.5%
Port Miami	192,292	186,976	187,852	2.8%	2.4%
Port Everglades	191,244	181,353	171,992	5.5%	11.2%
Baltimore	181,114	182,914	170,176	-1.0%	6.4%
Philadelphia	154,693	130,051	94,155	18.9%	64.3%
New Orleans	83,447	88,630	89,593	-5.8%	-6.9%
Hueneme	48,240	45,338	21,670	6.4%	122.6%
Boston	38,315	42,475	47,833	-9.8%	-19.9%
San Diego	22,130	23,868	22,114	-7.3%	0.1%
Portland, Oregon	16,379	16,389	20	-0.1%	∞
U.S. Ports Total	9,243,627	8,581,201	7,740,345	7.7%	19.4%

Complete February 2025 TEU Numbers

Exhibits 1-3 display the February TEU numbers for the North American ports we monitor. The year’s second month saw the number of inbound loaded TEUs at the U.S. ports we track edge up by 3.1% from a year earlier to 2,152,302 TEUs. Collectively, outbound loads from those same ports drifted lower by 6.2% from February 2024 to 57,005 TEUs.

February data showed that USWC ports continued to see elevated volumes of inbound container traffic as the new year proceeded into its second month, with the seven USWC ports we track each month handling 7.8% more inbound loaded TEUs than they had a year earlier. By comparison, U.S. East Coast (USEC) ports recorded a slender 1.6% year-over-year gain in inbound loads. Even so, USEC ports handled more inbound loads than did USWC ports in February. At the two U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) ports we track, the number of inbound loads fell by 12.8% from February 2024.

At Port of Long Beach reported 368,669 inbound loaded TEUs in February, an 11.8% year-over-year increase and a 21.7% gain over the pre-pandemic February of 2019. Outbound loads (90,026 TEUs) edged up by 2.9% from a year earlier but were down 14.5% from February 2019. Including loaded as well as empty containers, total YTD container traffic through the Southern California port amounted to 1,718,118 TEUs, a 37.0% gain over the same period in 2019.

Meanwhile, the neighboring Port of Los Angeles, the number of inbound loads in February edged up 1.1% from a year earlier to 413,236 TEUs. That also represented an 18.6% gain over February 2019. Outbound loads (109,156 TEUs) were down by 17.8% year-over-year and 23.4% below the volume recorded in the second month of 2019. Total container trade YTD through the San Pedro Bay port amounted to 1,725,643 TEUs, a 10.8% increase over the same period in 2019.

In Northern California, the Port of Oakland recorded 80,582 inbound loaded TEUs in February, a 5.0% increase over the preceding February and a gain of 15.2% over February 2019. Outbound loads (65,522 TEUs) were meanwhile down 5.4% year-over-year and 3.4% below the volume reported in the second month of 2019. However, total container traffic YTD (384,122 TEUs) did exceed the number of loaded and empty TEUs that passed through the San Francisco Bay Area gateway in the first two months of 2019 by 28.8%

Oregon’s struggling Port of Portland handled a total of 7,326 TEUs in February, the fewest the port has handled in any February since 2021. Inbound traffic (3,407 TEUs) was down 2.5% from a year earlier, while outbound trade (3,918 TEUs) was off by 12.4%. YTD, the Columbia River port has handled 16,379 TEUs, nearly identical to the 16,389 TEUs the port had handled at this point in 2024.  

Up at the Northwest Seaport Alliance Ports of Tacoma and Seattle, container traffic rebounded robustly in February from a year earlier. Import loads (104,652 TEUs) jumped 27.9% year-over-year but were still only 5.0% ahead of February 2019’s volume. Export loads continued to fall off as this February’s 46,267 loads trailing the previous February by 7.8% and February 2019 by 29.5%. Total box trade so far this year through the two Puget Sound ports (522,574 TEUs) was up 19.3% from the same months in 2024 but down 12.2% from 2019.

Across the border in British Columbia, the Port of Vancouver had a sluggish February. Inbound loads (126,468 TEUs) plunged 17.8% from a year earlier and were also down 2.3% from February 2019. Outbound loads (125,437 TEUs) dropped 13.8% year-over-year and fell 38.3% below the volume in February 2019. Aided by higher volumes in January, total YTD container traffic at Canada’s largest seaport (581,664 TEUs) inched up 1,4% from the first two months of 2019.   

Further north in British Columbia, the Port of Prince Rupert reports 24,914 inbound loaded TEUs in February, a 17.9% drop from a year earlier and a 28.3% decline from February 2019. Outbound loads (8,196 TEUs) over the same periods were down 12.1% and 29.5%, respectively. Total container traffic in this year’s first two months (118,868 TEUs) was off by 26.6% from the same months in 2019.   

Back on the Atlantic Seaboard, Port of New York/New Jersey (PNYNJ), processed 356,918 inbound loaded TEUs in the year’s second month, a 7.4% year-over-year gain. Outbound loads (107,335 TEUs) were also up 5.6% from a year earlier. Total container moves YTD through the principal East Coast maritime gateway (1,419,987 TEUs) were up 9.2% over the same two months in 2019.

The Port of Virginia handled 112,357 inbound loaded TEUs in February, down 14.2% from a year earlier but up 6.6% from February 2019. Outbound loads (82,660 TEUs) fell by 17.3% year-over-year but remained 7.9% above the number recorded in the second month of 2019. Total container traffic through the port YTD (513,214 TEUs) was 9.6% higher than the volume handled in February 2019.

South Carolina’s Port of Charleston discharged 112,487 inbound loaded TEUs in February, a year-over-year gain of 8.0% and a 44.8% increase over February 2019. Outbound loads (53,205 TEUs) were down 10.8% from a year earlier as well as off 14.3% from February six years ago. Total traffic YTD (225,374 TEUs) was up 26.5% from the first two months of 2019.

The Port of Savannah reported 235,971 inbound loaded TEUs in February, a 7.8% increase over a year earlier and a 57.6% gain over February 2019. Outbound loads (126,924 TEUs) were up 4.1% year-over-year and 20.6% ahead of the February 2019 volume. Total container traffic YTD at the Georgia port (898,068 TEUs) was up 21.0% over the first two months of 2019.

On the Gulf Coast, Port Houston handled 142,661 inbound loaded TEUs in February, down 14.5% from a year earlier but up 64.1% over February 2019. Meanwhile, outbound loads (122,740 TEUs) were down 15.8% year-over-year but up 42.0% from February 2019. Total container traffic YTD through the Texas gateway amounted to 681,831 TEUs, a 65.3% bump over the same months six years earlier.   

USWC Ports Shares of Worldwide U.S. Mainland Container Trade

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	36.8%	34.3%	38.7%	35.0%
LA/LB	27.3%	25.8%	23.5%	25.5%
Oakland	3.4%	3.3%	3.5%	2.5%
NWSA	4.5%	3.5%	5.4%	5.0%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	42.7%	40.0%	46.9%	40.5%
LA/LB	33.5%	31.7%	35.8%	31.2%
Oakland	3.2%	3.2%	3.5%	2.1%
NWSA	5.0%	4.3%	6.9%	6.4%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	29.6%	31.8%	38.5%	35.8%
LA/LB	17.6%	19.2%	22.0%	21.4%
Oakland	5.5%	5.4%	6.7%	5.3%
NWSA	5.8%	6.2%	8.2%	7.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

USWC Container Trade Market Shares by Weights and Values

Exhibit 4 and Exhibit 5 display the latest U.S. West Coast shares of container trade through the mainland U.S. ports with which USWC ports compete. The data are derived from import and export documentation provided by shippers or their freight-forwarders to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. For a broader perspective, we compare the most recent month for which data are available with the same month in the preceding year, in pre-pandemic 2019, and a decade earlier. For those who are inclined to add up the numbers, the USWC totals in these two exhibits include international container traffic moving through smaller West Coast ports like San Diego, Hueneme, Portland, and Everett, in addition to the container figures from the USWC Big Five ports.

Exhibit 4 shows a dramatic year-over-year boost in the USWC share of all containerized import tonnage flowing into all mainland U.S. ports. To be sure, February’s 36.8% share was down from a peak share of 39.8% last September, but – remarkably -- it exceeded the USWC share recorded in the second month of 2019. The USWC share of the value of the nation’s containerized import trade also swelled this February, owing in large part to a year-over-year doubling of imports of laptop computers. The exhibit further testifies to the consolidation of USWC containerized trade at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The fact that the two Southern California ports handled a bigger value share (33.5%) than a weight share (27.3%) of containerized imports indicates that shippers of higher value goods continue to prioritize use of the San Pedro Bay gateway.

Major USWC Ports' Shares of U.S. Container Trade with East Asia

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	26.8%	27.2%	32.8%	28.6%
LA/LB	17.5%	17.3%	21.0%	19.4%
Oakland	5.9%	5.9%	6.7%	4.8%
NWSA	3.1%	3.1%	4.1%	3.9%

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	53.8%	51.2%	56.9%	55.6%
LA/LB	42.3%	41.3%	43.5%	42.4%
Oakland	3.7%	4.0%	4.2%	2.8%
NWSA	6.8%	5.2%	8.2%	8.8%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	63.2%	59.7%	66.3%	60.6%
LA/LB	50.7%	48.4%	51.5%	47.6%
Oakland	3.7%	4.0%	4.3%	2.3%
NWSA	7.5%	6.4%	9.8%	9.8%

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	51.1%	52.7%	59.9%	57.6%
LA/LB	31.2%	32.6%	36.7%	37.4%
Oakland	8.3%	7.7%	9.4%	6.7%
NWSA	10.5%	10.8%	13.6%	12.7%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

	February 2025	February 2024	February 2019	February 2015
USWC	55.6%	55.4%	64.2%	58.3%
LA/LB	36.8%	36.3%	44.1%	42.2%
Oakland	11.1%	10.6%	11.5%	7.4%
NWSA	7.3%	6.7%	8.5%	8.3%

Exhibit 5 focuses on the USWC shares of U.S. containerized trade involving trading partners in East Asia. Again, the numbers indicate that the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are capturing a substantially larger share of the nation’s containerized import tonnage from East Asia. However, while that 53.8% USWC share of containerized import tonnage is slightly higher than the shares recorded in the two preceding months, it is lower than the 58.2% mark achieved last September. The Port of Oakland’s share of import tonnage and value was down from the same months in 2024 and 2019. Although the NWSA Ports of Tacoma and Seattle saw year-over-year gains, their import shares declined from February 2019.  

On the export side of the ledger, USWC ports’ share of the nation’s containerized trade remains substantially below their 2019 shares.  Manifestly, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to see their shares of the nation’s containerized export shipments to East Asia decline from pre-pandemic 2019.