March 2025 TEUs

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

March 2025 Inbound Loaded

Port	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	385,531	379,542	297,187	1.6%	29.7%
Long Beach	380,562	302,521	247,039	25.8%	54.0%
San Pedro Bay Total	766,093	682,063	544,226	12.3%	40.8%
Oakland	87,896	83,482	74,714	5.3%	17.6%
NWSA	109,900	92,787	117,007	18.4%	-6.1%
Hueneme	11,050	9,788	5,703	12.9%	93.8%
San Diego	7,244	7,124	7,072	1.7%	2.4%
USWC Total	982,183	875,244	748,722	12.2%	31.2%
Boston	11,503	9,213	11,856	24.9%	-3.0%
NYNJ	381,017	353,261	282,981	7.9%	34.7%
Philadelphia	40,742	36,716	22,156	11.0%	83.9%
Baltimore	51,039	37,996	43,700	34.3%	16.8%
Virginia	138,648	134,944	107,040	2.7%	29.5%
Charleston	113,524	107,237	92,875	5.9%	22.2%
Savannah	265,937	211,033	186,369	26.0%	42.7%
Jaxport	28,408	25,326	30,202	12.2%	42.7%
Port Everglades	39,067	30,010	28,507	30.2%	37.0%
Port Miami	46,863	43,404	38,690	8.0%	21.1%
USEC Total	1,116,748	989,140	844,376	12.9%	32.3%
New Orleans	9,929	11,060	13,179	-10.2%	-24.7%
Houston	167,859	164,634	109,604	2.0%	53.2%
USGC Total	177,788	175,694	122,783	1.2%	44.8%
Vancouver	153,152	158,296	130,472	-3.2%	17.4%
Prince Rupert	37,770	41,133	43,122	-8.2%	-12.4%
British Columbia Total	190,922	199,429	173,594	-4.3%	10.0%
Mazanilla	131,650	140,510	104,285	-6.3%	26.2%
Lazaro Cardenas	49,982	49,887	40,574	0.2%	23.2%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	181,632	190,397	144,859	-4.6%	25.4%
U.S. Ports Total	2,276,719	2,040,078	1,715,881	11.6%	32.7%

March 2025 Outbound Loaded

Port	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	122,975	144,718	158,924	-15.0%	-22.6%
Long Beach	104,063	105,099	131,436	-1.0%	-20.8%
San Pedro Bay Totals	227,038	249,817	290,360	-9.1%	-21.8%
Oakland	76,157	75,352	88,202	1.1%	-13.7%
NWSA	61,575	59,842	86,856	2.9%	-29.1%
Hueneme	2,172	1,556	1,425	39.6%	52.4%
San Diego	664	1,610	311	-58.8%	113.5%
USWC Totals	367,606	388,177	467,154	-5.3%	-21.3%
Boston	4,103	5,334	6,645	-23.1%	-38.3%
NYNJ	134,966	117,893	130,038	14.5%	3.8%
Philadelphia	8,923	6,056	6,938	47.3%	28.6%
Baltimore	17,099	16,699	20,589	2.4%	-17.0%
Virginia	102,448	101,170	89,282	1.3%	14.7%
Charleston	59,978	60,319	77,704	-0.6%	-22.8%
Savannah	142,612	127,997	155,083	11.4%	-8.0%
Jaxport	42,109	43,998	45,740	-4.3%	-7.9%
Port Everglades	40,565	36,067	37,351	12.5%	8.6%
Port Miami	27,128	23,598	38,947	15.0%	-30.3%
USEC Totals	579,931	539,131	608,317	7.6%	30.3%
New Orleans	22,689	22,243	26,364	2.0%	-13.9%
Houston	152,857	134,221	118,295	13.9%	29.2%
USGC Totals	175,546	156,464	144,659	12.2%	21.4%
Vancouver	75,009	77,834	103,472	-3.6%	-27.5%
Prince Rupert	14,411	14,720	17,832	-2.1%	-19.2%
British Columbia Totals	89,420	92,554	121,304	-3.4%	-26.3%
Manzanillo	27,236	32,436	70,998	-16.0%	-74.5%
Lazaro Cardenas	5,209	6,281	20,406	-17.1%	-74.5%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	32,445	38,717	91,404	-16.2%	-64.5%
U.S. Ports Total	1,123,083	1,083,772	1,220,130	3.6%	-8.0%

March 2025 Year-to-Date TEUs

Port	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	2,504,049	2,380,503	2,208,734	5.2%	13.4%
Long Beach	2,535,575	2,002,820	1,806,723	26.6%	40.3%
NYNJ	2,201,989	2,001,408	1,792,845	10.0%	22.8%
Savannah	1,432,063	1,315,706	1,152,447	8.8%	24.3%
Houston	1,068,695	1,069,917	694,167	-0.1%	54.0%
Manzanilla	979,451	958,271	752,325	2.2%	30.2%
Vancouver	877,587	860,605	843,039	2.0%	4.1%
NWSA	832,568	699,382	932,289	19.0%	-10.7%
Virginia	813,955	850,294	708,297	-4.3%	14.9%
Charleston	668,231	627,297	597,933	6.5%	11.8%
Oakland	601,527	566,052	612,151	6.3%	-1.7%
Lazaro Cardenas	595,947	535,021	341,727	11.4%	74.4%
Montreal	361,275	353,026	409,311	2.3%	-11.7%
JaxPort	336,083	327,553	338,358	2.6%	0.7%
Port Everglades	301,877	277,227	264,356	8.9%	14.2%
Port Miami	298,080	280,275	291,368	6.4%	2.3%
Prince Rupert	192,471	191,279	248,251	0.6%	-22.5%
Baltimore	279,124	258,013	266,138	8.2%	4.9%
Philadelphia	238,946	202,591	139,948	17.9%	70.7%
New Orleans	130,124	133,842	150,169	-2.8%	-13.3%
Hueneme	70,618	65,182	33,428	8.3%	111.3%
Boston	62,446	62,116	71,883	0.5%	-13.1%
San Diego	37,427	38,060	36,385	-1.7%	2.9%
Portland, Oregon	21,904	25,849	20	-15.3%	∞
U.S. Ports Total	14,435,281	13,184,087	12,097,639	9.5%	19.3%

Complete March 2025 TEU Numbers

Exhibits 1-3 display the March TEU numbers for the North American ports PMSA monitors. At the U.S. ports we track, the year’s third month saw the number of inbound loaded TEUs increase 11.6% from a year earlier to 2,276,719 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 3.6% from March 2024 to 1,123,083 TEUs.

March data also showed that U.S. West Coast (USWC) ports continued to see elevated volumes of inbound container traffic, with the seven USWC ports we track each month handling 12.2% more inbound loaded TEUs than they had a year earlier. The decision to pause “Liberation Day” tariffs has given importers even more time to build their inventories. By comparison, U.S. East Coast (USEC) ports recorded a 12.9% year-over-year gain in inbound loaded TEUs. Even so, USEC ports handled 13.7% more inbound loads in March than did USWC ports. At the two U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) ports we keep tables on, the number of inbound loads inched up by 1.2% over March 2024. (We would love to include the TEU figures for the Port of Mobile, but the Alabama Port Authority has told us we are not entitled to see those numbers.)

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

The Port of Los Angeles discharged 385,531 inbound laden TEUs in March, a modest 1.6% gain over March 2024 but a more solid 29.7% increase from pre-pandemic March 2019. Outbound loads (122,975 TEUs) were off by 15.0% from a year earlier as well as down 22.6% from the third month of 2019. Total container traffic of loaded and empty containers through the Southern California gateway through this year’s first quarter amounted to 2,504,049 TEUs, up 13.4% over the same quarter in 2019. 

At the neighboring Port of Long Beach, inbound loads in March (380,562 TEUs) were up 25.8% from a year earlier and 54.0% over March 2019. Meanwhile, outbound loads (104,063 TEUs) slipped by 1.0% from the preceding March, but were off by 20.8% from March 2019. Total YTD container traffic through the San Pedro Bay port (2,535,575 TEUs) established Long Beach as the nation’s busiest container port in this year’s first quarter.

In Northern California, the Port of Oakland had its busiest month since May 2022. Total container traffic in the first quarter amounted to 601,527 TEUs, a 6.3% gain over the same quarter of 2024 that still left the port 1.7% shy of the mark set in the first quarter of 2019. Inbound loads in March (87,896 TEUs) were up 5.3% from a year earlier and 17.6% ahead of March 2019. Outbound loads in March (76,157 TEUs) were up 1.1% from the previous March but still down 13.7% from March 2019.

In Washington State, the Northwest Seaport Alliance Ports of Tacoma and Seattle handled 109,900 inbound loaded TEUs in this year’s third month, up by 18.4% from a year earlier but still down 6.1% from the mark achieved in March 2019. Outbound loads (61,575 TEUs) increased by 2,9% year-over-year but nonetheless down by 29.1% from the same month in pre-pandemic 2019. Total container traffic through the two ports YTD (832,568 TEUs) was down 10.7% from the volume reported for 2019’s first quarter.

Oregon’s Port of Portland continues to give state and local officials little reason for cheer. March saw total container traffic (5,525 TEUs) slow to the lowest volume in any month since May 2021. Outbound containers (2,867 TEUs) were the fewest in any month since November 2021, while inbound traffic (2.658 TEUs) was the lowest since June 2023.

Checking in with the bulk shipment terminals along the Washington State bank of the Columbia River, the Ports of Kalama, Longview, and Vancouver (WA) collectively overcame a 47.6% drop in exports to China in this year’s first quarter by posting a 9.7% year-over-year gain in the year’s first three months. Helping to offset the loss of trade with China were substantial increases in shipments to Japan (+63.8%), South Korea (+127.6%), Vietnam (+112.1%), and India (87.7%). However, the three ports, which mostly traffic in soybeans, wheat, and corn, saw the value of their first quarter exports shrink by 7.0% from last year’s first quarter.

Moving across the border, Canada’s largest seaport, the Port of Vancouver, handled 153,152 inbound loaded TEUs in March, a decline of 3.2% from the preceding March but up 17.4% from March 2019. Outbound loads (75,009 TEUs) were down 3.6% from a year earlier and down 27.5% from March 2019. Total container traffic YTD through the British Columbia gateway amounted to 877,589 TEUs, a 4.1% gain over the same period in 2019. 

The Port of Prince Rupert handled 37,700 inbound loaded TEUs in March, down 8.2% from the preceding March and 12.4% below the volume recorded in March 2019. Outbound loads (14,411 TEUs) slipped by 2.1% from a year earlier, while trailing March 2019 by 19.2%. Total first quarter container traffic (192,471 TEUs) remained down 22.5% from the first three months of 2019.

Canada’s Port of Halifax issues container trade statistics that are both untimely and less than detailed. For the record, we observe that the Nova Scotia port handled a total of 509,273 TEUs in 2024, a 6.8% decline from the previous year. The 265,260 TEUs of imports last year were down by 5.4% from the year before, while exports (244,013 TEUs) declined by 8.2%. However, the port’s fourth quarter numbers were strong, with imported TEUs up 39.1% year-over-year and export TEUs up 10.5%.

On the Eastern Seaboard, 378,168 laden TEUs were discharged in March at the Port of New York/New Jersey, a 7.9% increase from a year earlier and a 34.7% gain from March 2019. Outbound loads (134,966 TEUs) jumped by 14.5% year-over-year but just 3.8% over March 2019. Total first quarter container traffic through the largest East Coast maritime gateway amounted to 2,201,989 TEUs, a 22.8% gain over the same quarter in 2019.

Along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, the Port of Virginia handled 138,648 inbound loads in March, a moderate 2.7% year-over-year increase but a more substantial 29.5% increase over March 2019. Outbound loads (102,448 TEUs) edged up 1.3% from a year earlier and 14.7% over March 2019. Total container traffic in the first quarter (813,955 TEUs) marked a 14.9% gain over the same three months in 2019.

March at the Port of Charleston saw 113,524 inbound loaded TEUs, a 5.9% gain from the same month a year earlier and a 22.2% increase over March 2019. Outbound loads (59,978 TEUs) were off by 0.6% year-over-year and down 22.8% from March 2019. Total container traffic through the South Carolina port in this year’s first quarter amounted to 668,231 TEUs, up 11.8% from the same period in 2019.   

March was an especially busy month at the Port of Savannah. Inbound loads (265,937 TEUs) were up 26.0% from a year earlier and up 42.7% from March 2019. Although outbound loads (142,612 TEUs) were up by 11.4% from the previous March, they were down 8.0% from the same month in 2019. Total first quarter container traffic through the Georgia gateway (1.432,063 TEUs) represented a 24.3% jump over the same quarter in 2019.

On the Gulf Coast, 167,859 laden TEUs were discharged at Port Houston in March, a 2.0% bump over the number of inbound loads processed the previous March but a 53.2% gain over the volume recorded in March 2019. Outbound loads (152,857 TEUs) were up 13.9% year-over-year as well as up 29.2% over March 2019. Total container traffic through the Texas gateway YTD (1,068,695 TEUs) represented a 54.0% increase over the first quarter of 2019.

South of the border, Mexico’s two principal Pacific Coast ports, Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas collectively handled 181,632 laden import TEUs in March, a 4.6% fall-off from March 2024. Export loads (32,445 TEUs) plunged by 16.2% from a year earlier. Total container traffic through the two ports in the first quarter of this year amounted to 1,575,398 TEUs, a 74.4% jump over the first three months of 2019.

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

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	33.7%	34.0%	34.3%	40.6%
LA/LB	24.7%	24.9%	23.5%	28.9%
Oakland	3.4%	3.8%	4.0%	4.2%
NWSA	4.0%	3.9%	5.1%	6.1%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	38.9%	39.1%	41.5%	47.1%
LA/LB	30.1%	30.1%	30.4%	35.4%
Oakland	2.9%	3.4%	3.8%	3.6%
NWSA	4.8%	4.9%	6.7%	7.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	29.6%	32.8%	38.1%	38.2%
LA/LB	17.3%	19.9%	22.7%	22.9%
Oakland	5.9%	5.8%	6.5%	6.1%
NWSA	5.9%	6.2%	8.2%	8.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

Comparing USWC Container Traffic in March 2025 with Marchs Past by Weights and Values

Exhibit 7 and Exhibit 8 display the latest (March 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 7 shows a modest year-over-year fall-off in the 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 also slipped this March. The exhibit further testifies to the consolidation of the 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 (30.1%) than a weight

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

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	25.5%	27.5%	32.3%	30.3%
LA/LB	15.7%	17.7%	21.0%	20.4%
Oakland	6.3%	6.1%	6.2%	5.1%
NWSA	3.2%	3.3%	4.4%	4.4%

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	52.1%	52.3%	53.6%	62.6%
LA/LB	40.8%	40.9%	39.5%	47.9%
Oakland	3.7%	4.2%	4.8%	4.2%
NWSA	6.6%	6.2%	8.2%	9.7%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	61.9%	60.9%	63.5%	66.8%
LA/LB	49.6%	48.1%	47.9%	51.6%
Oakland	3.5%	4.3%	4.7%	3.9%
NWSA	7.7%	7.6%	10.2%	10.9%

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	52.0%	56.3%	60.8%	61.1%
LA/LB	30.9%	35.2%	37.7%	38.7%
Oakland	9.4%	8.4%	9.5%	8.4%
NWSA	11.0%	11.1%	13.1%	13.5%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

	March 2025	March 2024	March 2019	March 2015
USWC	56.1%	57.0%	64.5%	59.4%
LA/LB	35.3%	38.0%	43.4%	41.9%
Oakland	12.3%	11.0%	11.1%	7.6%
NWSA	8.3%	7.3%	8.6%	9.1%

Exhibit 8 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 slightly smaller share of the nation’s containerized import tonnage from East Asia than they had a year earlier. However, that 52.1% USWC share of containerized import tonnage in March is significantly 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 were down from March 2019.