January 2025 TEUs

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

January 2025 Inbound Loaded

Port	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	483,831	441,763	429,923	9.5%	12.5%
Long Beach	471,649	325,339	323,838	45.0%	45.6%
San Pedro Bay Total	955,480	767,102	753,761	24.6%	26.8%
Oakland	81,453	72,081	81,893	13.0%	-0.5%
NWSA	108,343	80,410	128,615	34.7%	-15.8%
Hueneme	12,142	12,806	6,076	-5.2%	99.8%
San Diego	5,608	6,008	5,078	-6.7%	10.4%
USWC Total	1,163,026	938,407	975,423	23.9%	19.2%
Boston	9,215	11,490	11,728	-19.8%	-21.4%
NYNJ	378,168	342,790	327,345	10.3%	15.5%
Philadelphia	41,632	33,524	25,967	24.2%	60.3%
Baltimore	48,004	48,142	43,869	-0.3%	9.4%
Virginia	121,770	129,204	109,757	-5.8%	10.0%
Charleston	98,774	99,765	88,107	-1.0%	12.1%
Savannah	206,405	219,079	209,583	-5.8%	-1.5%
Jaxport	27,163	26,388	30,321	2.9%	-10.4%
Port Everglades	31,834	30,239	27,730	5.3%	14.8%
Port Miami	39,934	40,477	39,286	-1.3%	1.6%
USEC Total	1,002,899	981,098	913,693	2.2%	9.8%
New Orleans	7,967	11,163	10,921	-28.6%	-27.0%
Houston	170,125	154,493	95,318	10.1%	78.5%
USGC Total	178,092	165,656	106,239	7.5%	67.6%
Vancouver	170,266	146,872	170,370	15.9%	-0.1%
Prince Rupert	39,198	35,804	54,481	9.5%	-28.1%
British Columbia Total	209,464	182,676	224,851	14.7%	-6.9%
U.S. Ports Total	2,344,017	2,085,161	1,995,355	-12.4%	-17.5%

January 2025 Outbound Loaded

Port	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	113,271	126,554	144,993	-10.5%	-21.9%
Long Beach	98,655	86,525	117,288	14.0%	-15.9%
San Pedro Bay Totals	211,926	213,079	262,281	-0.5%	-19.2%
Oakland	64,735	62,596	75,350	3.4%	-14.1%
NWSA	48,312	46,215	72,859	4.5%	-33.7%
Hueneme	2,350	1,806	1,518	30.1%	54.8%
San Diego	446	526	164	-15.2%	172.0%
USWC Totals	327,769	324,222	412,172	1.1%	-20.5%
Boston	3,645	4,318	5,723	-15.6%	-36.3%
NYNJ	98,706	104,724	111,833	-5.7%	-11.7%
Philadelphia	6,734	5,194	6,195	29.6%	8.7%
Baltimore	17,365	17,612	15,947	-1.4%	8.9%
Virginia	83,950	94,376	77,948	-11.0%	7.7%
Charleston	46,381	60,962	63,750	-23.9%	-27.2%
Savannah	96,853	104,685	124,373	-7.5%	-22.1%
Jaxport	41,963	39,855	40,745	5.3%	3.0%
Port Everglades	32,194	32,008	33,662	0.6%	-4.4%
Port Miami	18,293	21,172	38,852	-13.6%	52.9%
USEC Totals	446,084	484,906	519,028	-8.0%	-14.1%
New Orleans	17,550	20,782	25,875	-15.6%	-32.2%
Houston	122,931	124,137	87,961	-1.0%	39.8%
USGC Totals	140,481	144,919	113,836	-3.1%	23.4%
Vancouver	69,186	59,966	91,398	15.4%	-24.3%
Prince Rupert	15,216	11,443	17,156	33.0%	-11.3%
British Columbia Totals	84,402	71,409	108,554	18.2%	-22.2%
U.S. Ports Total	866,244	903,809	989,614	-4.2%	-12.5%

January 2025 Year-to-Date TEUs

Port	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	924,245	855,652	852,450	8.0%	8.4%
Long Beach	952,733	674,015	657,286	41.4%	44.9%
NYNJ	720,283	667,346	622,531	7.9%	15.7%
Savannah	418,222	428,036	430,079	-2.3%	-2.8%
Houston	356,407	340,418	214,952	4.7%	65.8%
Virginia	268,617	276,693	240,111	-2.9%	11.9%
Vancouver	329,754	261,977	313,527	25.9%	5.2%
NWSA	264,869	211,283	326,228	25.4%	-18.8%
Charleston	201,842	208,538	205,689	-3.2%	-1.9%
Oakland	193,175	180,487	212,493	7.0%	-9.1%
Montreal	119,928	108,202	132,936	10.8%	-9.8%
JaxPort	114,775	101,953	121,397	12.6%	-5.5%
Port Everglades	96,445	92,145	89,866	4.7%	7.3%
Port Miami	88,094	96,188	104,183	-8.4%	-15.4%
Philadelphia	84,193	65,622	53,132	28.3%	58.5%
Prince Rupert	74,671	62,567	100,868	19.3%	-26.0%
Baltimore	90,706	90,427	85,266	0.3%	6.4%
New Orleans	35,616	37,388	54,474	-4.7%	-34.6%
Boston	17,468	21,260	23,275	-17.8%	-24.9%
Hueneme	23,724	25,014	12,542	-5.2%	89.2%
San Diego	11,660	11,898	10,192	-2.0%	14.4%
Portland, Oregon	9,054	8,424	0	7.5%	∞
U.S. Ports Total	4,872,128	4,392,787	4,316,146	10.9%	12.9%

Complete January 2025 TEU Numbers

Exhibits 1-3 display the January TEU numbers for the North American ports we monitor. January saw the number of inbound loaded TEUs at the U.S. ports we track soar 12.4% from a year earlier to 2,344,017 TEUs. Collectively, outbound loads from those same ports edged lower by 4.2% from a year earlier to 914,334 TEUs.

January data also confirmed that USWC ports continued to see elevated volumes of inbound container traffic as the new year began, with the seven USWC ports we track each month handling 23.9% more inbound loaded TEUs than they had a year earlier. By comparison, U.S. East Coast (USEC) ports recorded a slender 2.2% year-over-year gain in inbound loads. At the two U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) ports we track, the number of inbound loads rose by 7.5% from January 2024 and by a whopping 67.6% since January 2019.

The Port of Long Beach began the year at a torrid pace. Inbound loaded TEUs (471,649) were the second most in the port’s history, exceeded only by the 487,563 laden TEUs discharged in September 2024. On a year-over-year basis, inbound loads at the Southern California port were up 45.0% from a year earlier and up 45.6% from the first month of pre-pandemic 2019. Outbound loads (98,655 TEUs) were up 14.0% from a year earlier, but down 15.9% from January 2019. Total loads and empties handled at the port in January (962,733 TEUs) were 44.9% above the volume handled in January 2019.

The nation’s second busiest container port in January was the Port of Los Angeles, which started the year by handling 28,488 fewer TEUs than the neighboring Port of Long Beach. Inbound loads at the Port of LA in January (483,831 TEUs) were up 9.5% from a year earlier and up 12.5% from January 2019. Outbound loads (113,271 TEUs) were off year-over-year by 10.5% and were down by 21.9% from the same month in 2019. Overall, the San Pedro Bay maritime gateway processed 924,245 loaded and empty TEUs in January, an 8.0% gain over the same month in 2023 and an 8.4% increase over January 2019.

At the Port of Oakland, inbound loads (81,453 TEUs) in January were up 13.0% from the first month of the previous year but 0.5% shy of the volume handled in January 2019. Outbound loads from the Northern California port (64,735 TEUs) gained 3.4% over the previous January but remained 14.1% below the level recorded six years earlier. Total container traffic in January (193,175 TEUs) was up 7.0% year-over-year but down 9.1% from January 2019.  

Up in America’s upper lefthand corner, the Northwest Seaport Alliance Ports of Tacoma and Seattle enjoyed a substantial boost in container traffic over a comparatively sluggish January of 2024. Still, the ports continue to operate well below the volume they recorded in January 2019. Import loads this January (108,343 TEUs) were up 34.7% from a year earlier but remained down 15.8% from the same month six years earlier. Export loads (48,312 TEUs) edged up 4.5% year-over-year but were 33.7% below January 2019. Total container movements through the two ports (264,869 TEUs) were down 18.8% from the first month of 2019.

Canada’s largest port, the Port of Vancouver, enjoyed boosts in container traffic in January that brought the port in British Columbia closer to its pre-pandemic levels. Inbound loads (170,266 TEUs) jumped by 16.9% from the preceding January and just 0.1% below its January 2019 pace. Outbound loads (69,186 TEUs), while a 15.4% gain from a year earlier, still lagged January 2019’s volume by 24.3%. Overall, all container traffic of loads and empties in January (329,754 TEUs) remained 5.2% below the volume reported in January 2019 despite a 25.9% bump over January 2024.

Even further northwest, 39,198 laden TEUs were discharged at the Port of Prince Rupert in January, a 9.5% gain over the previous January but nonetheless down 28.1% from the number of inbound loads handled in January 2019. Outbound loads (15,216 TEUs), while up 33.0% year-over-year, were down 11.3% from January 2019. Total container traffic through the port this January (74,671 TEUs) was 26.0% below its volume in pre-COVID January 2019.

Back on the wintery Atlantic Coast, 378,168 laden TEUs were discharged in January at the Port of New York/New Jersey (PNYNJ), a 10.3% gain over the same month a year earlier and an increase of 15.5% over January 2019. Outbound loads (98,706 TEUs) were down by 5.7% from the previous January and off by 11.7% from the first month of 2019. Total container moves through the very busiest of the East Coast ports amounted to 720,283 TEUs, a 15.7% increase over the same month in 2019. 

The mid-Atlantic Coast Port of Virginia handled 121,770 inbound loaded TEUs in January, a 5.8% drop from a year earlier but still up 10.0% over January 2019. Outbound loads (83,950 TEUs) were down by 11.0% from the preceding January but remained 7.7% above the volume recorded in January 2019. Total container traffic through the port in January amounted to 268,617 TEUs, 11.9% above the 240,111 TEUs the port had handled six years earlier.

The Port of Charleston handled 98,774 inbound loaded TEUs in January, off by 1.0% from a year earlier but up by 12.1% from the first month of 2019. Outbound loads from the South Carolina gateway (46,381 TEUs) plummeted by 23.9% year-over-year and by 27.2% from January 2019. Total box trade through the port in January (201,842 TEUs) was off by 1.9% from the 205,689 TEUs processed during January 2019.

The nation’s fourth busiest container port, the Port of Savannah, reported 206,405 inbound loaded TEUs in January, down 5.8% year-over-year and off by 1.5% from the 209,583 laden inbound TEUs handled in the first month of 2019. Outbound loads (96,853 TEUs) were down 7.5% from a year earlier as well as down 22.1% from January 2019. Total container traffic through the Georgia port in this year’s first month (418,222 TEUs) was 2.8% below the volume handled in January 2019.

Port Houston handled 170,125 inbound loaded TEUs in January, a 10.1% year-over-year gain but more impressively a 78.5% increase over January 2019. Outbound loads (122,931 TEUs) meanwhile slipped by 1.0% from a year earlier but remained up 39.8% from the same month six years ago. Total container traffic YTD through the Texas port (356,407 TEUs) represented a remarkable 65.8% increase over January 2019.

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

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	39.3%	36.8%	39.3%	37.5%
LA/LB	30.0%	28.0%	28.7%	27.6%
Oakland	2.9%	3.0%	3.7%	3.2%
NWSA	4.5%	3.7%	5.3%	5.1%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	47.0%	41.3%	47.5%	44.9%
LA/LB	38.0%	33.3%	37.0%	34.8%
Oakland	3.0%	2.7%	3.5%	2.9%
NWSA	5.0%	4.2%	6.4%	6.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	32.1%	31.3%	38.2%	34.9%
LA/LB	19.0%	18.6%	22.1%	20.9%
Oakland	5.9%	5.7%	6.5%	4.9%
NWSA	6.4%	6.1%	8.7%	8.2%

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, January’s 39.3% share was down from a peak share of 39.8% last September, but – remarkably -- it equaled the share recorded in the first month of 2019. The USWC share of the value of the nation’s containerized import trade also swelled this January 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 (38.0%) than a weight share (30.0%) 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

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	29.5%	27.0%	33.5%	32.0%
LA/LB	19.1%	17.6%	21.0%	20.4%
Oakland	6.2%	5.7%	7.5%	6.5%
NWSA	3.7%	3.2%	4.5%	4.4%

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	57.4%	53.8%	57.2%	57.5%
LA/LB	46.1%	43.8%	44.8%	44.1%
Oakland	3.5%	3.4%	4.1%	3.8%
NWSA	6.6%	5.4%	7.8%	8.1%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	66.0%	59.6%	64.4%	70.4%
USWC	67.1%	60.6%	66.1%	64.7%
LA/LB	55.2%	50.2%	52.7%	50.8%
Oakland	3.7%	3.3%	3.9%	3.4%
NWSA	7.1%	6.0%	8.8%	9.5%

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	52.0%	50.0%	58.5%	58.6%
LA/LB	31.5%	30.8%	35.9%	36.8%
Oakland	8.6%	8.0%	8.6%	7.5%
NWSA	10.5%	9.9%	13.6%	13.4%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

	January 2025	January 2024	January 2019	January 2014
USWC	58.4%	52.4%	62.0%	60.6%
LA/LB	38.6%	35.4%	41.9%	41.3%
Oakland	11.1%	9.7%	10.4%	9.5%
NWSA	7.9%	6.7%	8.4%	9.1%

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 57.4% share is slightly higher than the shares recorded in the two preceding months, it is lower than the 58.2% mark achieved last September. Although the Port of Oakland saw a 0.1 percentage point year-over-year increase in its share of the inbound trade from East Asia, the NWSA Ports of Tacoma and Seattle saw a considerable 1.2 percentage point bump in their combined share of import tonnage from a year earlier.