April 2025 TEUs

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

April 2025 Inbound Loaded

Port	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	439,230	416,929	360,745	5.3%	21.8%
Long Beach	419,828	364,665	317,883	15.1%	32.1%
San Pedro Bay Total	859,058	781,594	678,628	9.9%	26.6%
Oakland	78,965	75,335	80,702	4.8%	-2.2%
NWSA	105,370	96,852	112,652	8.8%	-6.5%
Hueneme	11,754	12,199	5,364	-3.6%	119.1%
San Diego	5,804	5,816	5,840	-0.2%	-0.6%
USWC Total	1,060,951	971,796	883,186	9.2%	20.1%
Boston	11,174	12,509	12,247	-10.7%	-8.8%
NYNJ	386,727	349,792	297,825	10.6%	29.9%
Philadelphia	37,355	37,198	25,209	0.4%	48.2%
Baltimore	50,167	102	42,984	∞	16.7%
Virginia	135,596	146,779	119,266	-7.6%	13.7%
Charleston	103,265	106,877	87,675	-3.4%	17.8%
Savannah	252,631	211,881	175,661	19.2%	43.8%
Jaxport	32,194	30,448	27,094	5.7%	18.8%
Port Everglades	36,450	31,657	32,308	15.1%	12.8%
Port Miami	41,357	41,717	32,831	-0.9%	26.0%
USEC Total	1,086,916	968,960	853,100	12.2%	27.4%
New Orleans	9,391	10,073	10,527	-6.8%	-10.8%
Houston	177,733	146,910	100,627	21.0%	76.6%
USGC Total	187,124	156,983	111,154	19.2%	68.3%
Vancouver	166,853	160,954	145,168	3.7%	14.9%
Prince Rupert	36,125	31,598	51,686	14.3%	-30.1%
British Columbia Total	202,978	192,552	196,854	5.4%	3.1%
Manzanillo	140,233	142,568	108,005	-1.6%	29.8%
Lazaro Cardenas	55,926	54,098	42,339	3.4%	27.8%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	196,159	196,666	150,344	-0.3%	30.5%
U.S. Ports Total	2,334,991	2,097,739	1,847,440	11.3%	26.4%

April 2025 Outbound Loaded

Port	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	128,394	133,046	155,533	-3.5%	-17.4%
Long Beach	93,842	98,266	123,804	-4.5%	24.2%
San Pedro Bay Totals	222,236	231,312	279,337	-3.9%	-20.4%
Oakland	64,723	67,566	79,291	-4.2%	-18.4%
NWSA	53,558	54,489	81,305	-1.7%	-34.1%
Hueneme	2,152	1,612	1,340	33.5%	60.6%
San Diego	390	505	176	-22.8%	121.6%
USWC Totals	343,059	355,484	441,449	-3.5%	-22.3%
Boston	4,854	4,589	7,754	5.8%	-37.4%
NYNJ	121,770	121,847	131,311	0.1%	-7.3%
Philadelphia	10,207	7,064	7,605	44.5%	34.2%
Baltimore	21,147	108	20,940	∞	1.0%
Virginia	94,396	104,073	85,378	-9.3%	10.6%
Charleston	46,527	59,220	73,295	-21.4%	-36.5%
Savannah	126,880	122,514	129,726	3.6%	-2.2%
Jaxport	46,833	41,217	42,353	13.6%	10.6%
Port Everglades	37,975	34,057	36,084	11.5%	5.2%
Port Miami	20,697	22,072	30,719	-6.2%	-32.6%
USEC Totals	531,286	516,761	565,165	2.8%	-6.0%
New Orleans	19,135	21,460	24,545	-10.8%	-22.0%
Houston	138,810	119,302	106,654	16.4%	30.1%
USGC Totals	157,945	140,762	131,199	12.2%	20.4%
Vancouver	70,377	68,369	97,394	2.9%	-27.7%
Prince Rupert	9,995	9,077	20,271	10.1%	-50.7%
British Columbia Totals	80,372	77,446	117,665	3.8%	-31.7%
Manzanillo	23,218	26,232	63,702	-11.5%	-63.6%
Lazaro Cardenas	4,251	5,836	19,166	-27.2%	-77.8%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	27,469	32,068	82,868	-14.3%	-66.9%
U.S. Ports Total	1,032,290	1,013,007	1,137,813	1.9%	-9.3%

April 2025 Year-to-Date TEUs

Port	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Long Beach	3,403,069	2,753,244	2,434,846	23.6%	39.8%
Los Angeles	3,346,853	3,150,840	2,945,200	6.2%	13.6%
NYNJ	2,954,913	2,710,839	2,398,108	9.0%	23.2%
Savannah	1,947,571	1,756,676	1,516,928	10.9%	28.4%
Houston	1,456,173	1,394,094	946,860	4.5%	53.8%
Vancouver	1,196,197	1,154,515	1,133,669	3.6%	5.5%
NWSA	1,110,396	958,058	1,256,237	15.9%	-11.6%
Virginia	1,108,358	1,167,884	954,230	-5.1%	16.2%
Manzanillo	979,451	958,271	984,816	2.2%	-0.5%
Charleston	884,035	842,355	802,554	4.9%	10.2%
Oakland	787,028	754,679	828,153	4.3%	-5.0%
Lazaro Cardenas	595,947	535,021	429,468	11.4%	38.8%
Montreal	503,496	484,125	561,861	4.0%	-10.4%
JaxPort	459,398	435,991	443,481	5.4%	3.6%
Port Everglades	404,914	369,550	357,390	9.6%	13.3%
Port Miami	395,476	369,787	376,101	6.9%	5.2%
Philadelphia	316,827	274,731	139,948	15.3%	126.4%
Prince Rupert	256,593	246,592	346,055	4.1%	-25.9%
Baltimore	380,239	260,066	358,715	46.2%	6.0%
New Orleans	171,429	175,642	204,493	-2.4%	-16.2%
Hueneme	95,276	88,869	44,230	7.2%	115.4%
Boston	83,964	85,088	97,988	-1.3%	-14.3%
San Diego	48,067	49,993	48,029	-3.9%	0.1%
Portland, Oregon	30,484	33,098	20	-7.9%	∞
U.S. Ports Total	19,384,470	17,631,484	16,153,511	9.9%	20.0%

Complete April 2025 TEU Numbers

Exhibits 1-3 display the April TEU numbers for the North American ports PMSA monitors. At the U.S. ports, the year’s fourth month saw the number of inbound loaded TEUs increase 11.3% from a year earlier to 2,334,991 TEUs as the prospect of higher tariffs spurred importers to load up on inventory. Collectively, outbound loads from those same U.S. ports edged up by 1.9% from the previous year to 1,032,290 TEUs.

April data also showed that U.S. West Coast (USWC) ports handled 9.2% more inbound loaded TEUs than they had a year earlier. By comparison, U.S. East Coast (USEC) ports recorded a 12.2% year-over-year gain in inbound loaded TEUs that was partially abetted by the reopening of traffic at the Port of Baltimore. USEC ports handled 2.4% more inbound loads in April than did USWC ports. At the two U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) ports we keep tabs on, the number of inbound loads surged by 19.2% over April 2024.

Here are the April 2025 TEU tallies as reported by these selected ports:

The Port of Long Beach handled 419,828 inbound laden TEUs in April, a 15.1% bump from a year earlier and a 32.1% increase over April 2019. Outbound loads (93,842 TEUs), however, slipped by 4.5% from the previous April and were 24.2% below the volume in April 2019. Total container traffic YTD through the San Pedro Bay port (3,403,069 TEUs) exceeded the total volume during the first four months of re-pandemic 2019 by 39.8%.

The neighboring Port of Los Angeles discharged 439,230 inbound loaded TEUs in April, a 5.3% year-over-year gain and a 13.6% increase from the volume recorded in April 2019. Outbound loads (128,394 TEUs) slipped by 3.5% from a year earlier and were 17.4% below the April 2019 level. Total container traffic YTD (3,346,853 TEUs) were up 13.6% over the same months in 2019. 

The Port of Oakland received 78,965 laden TEUs in April, a 4.8% gain over a year earlier but still down 2.2% from April 2019. Outbound loads (64,723 TEUs) were off by 4.2% year-over-year as well as down 18.4% below the volume shipped in April 2019. Total container traffic through the Northern California gateway so far this year amounted to 787,028 TEUs, an increase of 4.3% from the first four months of 2024 but down 5.0% from the same period in 2019.

Checking in on the Columbia River Port of Portland in Oregon, the gateway volumes remain low, with total YTD traffic of 30,484 TEUs.  This is a decrease of 2,614 TEUs from the same four months in 2024, but up from the 20 TEUs the port handled in the first four months of 2019.  

April saw the Northwest Seaport Alliance Ports of Tacoma and Seattle handle 105,370 inbound loaded TEUs, an 8.8% increase from a year earlier, although down 6.5% from April 2019. Outbound loads (53,558 TEUs) were meanwhile down 1.7% from a year earlier and 34.1% off the volume reported in April 2019. Total container traffic through the two Washington State ports through April of this year (1,110,396 TEUs) fell short of the volume handled in the first four months of 2019 by 11.6%. 

Over the border in British Columbia, the Port of Vancouver reported 166,853 inbound loaded TEUs in April, up 3.7% from a year earlier and 14.9% increase over the level recorded in April 2019. Outbound loads from Canada’s top maritime gateway in April (70,377 TEUs) were up 2.9% year-over-year but down 27.7% from April 2019. Total container traffic YTD (1,196,197 TEUs) represented a 5.5% gain over the same months five years ago. 

The Port of Prince Rupert, Canada’s third busiest container port, handled 36,125 inbound loaded TEUs in April, up 14.3% year-over-year but down 30.1% from the volume of inbound loads processed in April 2019. Outbound loads in April (9,995 TEUs) were up 10.1% from a year earlier but down 50.7% from April 2019. Total container movements YTD (256,593 TEUs) were down 25.9% from the same months in 2019.   

On the Eastern Seaboard, the Port of New York/New Jersey processed 439,230 inbound loaded TEUs in April, a 10.6% year-over-year gain and a 29.9% increase over April 2019. Outbound loads (121,770 TEUs) were effectively unchanged from the 121,847 outbound loads the port had shipped a year earlier. Total container traffic through the first four months of this year amounted to 2,954,913 TEUs, maintaining the dominant Atlantic Coast gateway’s position as America’s third busiest container port, and an increase of 23.2% over 2019 YTD.  

On the Mid-Atlantic coastline, 135,596 inbound loaded TEUs were discharged in April at the Port of Virginia. That represented a 7.6% year-over-year fall-off but still remained 13.7% above the number of inbound loads handled in April 2019. Outbound loads this April (94,396 TEUs) were down by 9.3% from a year earlier but were 10.6% above April 2019’s volume. Total container traffic YTD (1,108,358 TEUs) were up by 16.2% over the first four months of 2019.

Georgia’s Port of Savannah reported the arrival of 252,631 inbound loaded TEUs in April, a 19.7% year-over-year bump as well as a 43.8% gain over April 2019. Outbound loads (126,880 TEUs) were up 3.6% from a year earlier but still down 2.2% from April 2019. Total container traffic this year through April (1,947,571 TEUs) represented a 28.4% gain over the same period in 2019.  

Down along the Gulf Coast, Port Houston processed 177,733 inbound loaded TEUs in April, up 21.0% from a year earlier and up 76.5% over April 2019. Outbound loads (138,810 TEUs) were up 16.4% from the previous April and up 30.1% from April 2019. Total container traffic through the Texas port over the first four months of this year (1,456,173 TEUs) represented a 53.8% gain over the same months in 2019.

South of the border, the Mexican Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas handled 196,159 imported loaded TEUs in April, a 0.3% falloff from a year earlier but a 30.5% gain over April 2019. Export loads from the two Pacific Coast ports in April (27,469 TEUs) were down 14.3% from April 2024 and down 66.9% from April 2019. Total container traffic through both ports in this year’s first four months amounted to 1,575,398 TEUs, up 11.4% from the same months six years ago.  

Ex. 6 USWC Ports Shares of Worldwide U.S. Mainland Container Trade

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	34.8%	35.8%	36.8%	40.5%
LA/LB	26.3%	26.7%	25.9%	29.2%
Oakland	3.0%	3.2%	4.0%	4.5%
NWSA	3.8%	3.9%	5.4%	5.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	39.7%	40.6%	44.3%	46.0%
LA/LB	31.8%	31.7%	32.9%	35.0%
Oakland	2.6%	3.1%	3.6%	3.2%
NWSA	4.4%	4.7%	7.0%	7.2%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	30.7%	34.8%	36.5%	36.6%
LA/LB	18.6%	20.7%	21.8%	21.2%
Oakland	5.9%	6.1%	6.3%	6.1%
NWSA	5.5%	7.1%	7.8%	8.4%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

Historic USWC Container Traffic by Weights and Values

Exhibit 6 and Exhibit 7 display the latest (April 2025) 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 6 shows a year-over-year decline of one percentage point in the overall USWC share of all containerized import tonnage flowing into all mainland U.S. ports. The USWC share of the value of the nation’s containerized import trade slipped even more in April. If nothing else, the exhibit testifies to the consolidation of the USWC containerized trade at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Ex. 7 Major USWC Ports' Shares of U.S. Container Trade with East Asia

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	26.9%	28.6%	32.5%	32.4%
LA/LB	18.1%	19.0%	21.8%	21.7%
Oakland	5.5%	6.0%	6.1%	5.6%
NWSA	3.0%	3.3%	4.2%	4.6%

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	54.5%	55.4%	57.3%	65.0%
LA/LB	44.0%	44.2%	43.7%	49.2%
Oakland	3.5%	3.8%	4.6%	5.6%
NWSA	6.0%	6.3%	8.4%	9.2%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	62.0%	63.2%	66.8%	67.1%
LA/LB	50.9%	50.8%	51.0%	52.1%
Oakland	3.2%	4.0%	4.4%	3.8%
NWSA	6.8%	7.2%	10.7%	10.5%

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	54.6%	57.8%	58.1%	61.5%
LA/LB	33.7%	34.8%	35.6%	37.8%
Oakland	9.5%	9.1%	9.4%	8.8%
NWSA	10.2%	12.5%	12.8%	14.0%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

	April 2025	April 2024	April 2019	April 2015
USWC	59.0%	58.2%	62.8%	63.2%
LA/LB	40.9%	39.8%	43.1%	44.9%
Oakland	10.4%	10.8%	10.5%	8.2%
NWSA	7.3%	7.3%	8.5%	9.5%

Exhibit 7 focuses on the USWC shares of U.S. containerized trade involving trading partners in East Asia. The numbers indicate that the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach captured a slightly smaller share of the nation’s containerized import tonnage from East Asia than they had a year earlier but a slightly higher share of the value of those imports. The Port of Oakland’s share of import tonnage and value was down from the same months in 2024 and 2019. The NWSA Ports of Tacoma and Seattle saw year-over-year declines in their import shares and even deeper declines from their shares in April 2015. Otherwise, perhaps the most noteworthy numbers in Exhibit 7 are those showing that the Port of Oakland’s share of America’s containerized export trade with East Asia exceeded the shares it held ten years ago.