May 2025 TEU

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

May 2025 Inbound Loaded

Port	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	355,950	390,663	427,789	-8.9%	-16.8%
Long Beach	299,116	345,271	290,568	-13.4%	2.9%
San Pedro Bay Total	655,066	735,934	718,357	-11.0%	-8.8%
Oakland	79,323	80,035	85,970	-0.9%	-7.7%
NWSA	81,642	103,556	111,730	-21.2%	-26.9%
Hueneme	9,050	10,912	5,557	-17.1%	62.9%
San Diego	5,274	6,006	5,836	-12.2%	-9.6%
USWC Total	830,355	936,443	927,450	-11.3%	-10.5%
Boston	12,011	11,101	11,436	8.2%	5.0%
NYNJ	382,217	413,794	340,680	-7.6%	12.2%
Philadelphia	33,668	35,961	26,752	-6.4%	25.9%
Baltimore	53,018	3,201	49,342		7.5%
Virginia	134,724	153,701	119,592	-12.3%	12.7%
Charleston	108,428	91,204	88,009	18.9%	23.2%
Savannah	238,090	233,675	185,265	1.9%	28.5%
Jaxport	29,286	35,774	30,022	-18.1%	-2.5%
Port Everglades	30,382	28,212	25,619	7.7%	18.6%
Port Miami	40,015	42,714	37,943	-6.3%	5.5%
USEC Total	1,008,821	1,046,136	865,318	1.2%	16.1%
New Orleans	13,770	10,407	12,994	32.3%	6.0%
Houston	166,005	164,572	107,126	0.9%	55.0%
USGC Total	179,775	174,979	120,120	2.7%	49.7%
Vancouver	178,635	157,586	130,769	13.4%	36.6%
Prince Rupert	45,608	47,769	57,578	-4.5%	-20.8%
British Columbia Total	224,243	205,355	188,347	9.2%	19.1%
Manzanillo	135,231	137,235	110,219	-1.5%	22.7%
Lazaro Cardenas	58,263	59,620	56,231	-2.4%	6.0%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	193,494	196,855	166,450	-1.7%	16.2%
U.S. Ports Total	2,071,969	2,160,759	1,962,230	-4.1%	5.6%

May 2025 Outbound Loaded

Port	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	120,196	125,963	167,357	-4.6%	-28.2%
Long Beach	82,149	100,885	120,577	-18.6%	-31.9%
San Pedro Bay Totals	202,345	226,848	287,934	-10.8%	-29.7%
Oakland	67,327	61,931	78,070	8.7%	-13.8%
NWSA	46,086	51,607	70,541	-10.7%	-34.7%
Hueneme	1,652	1,590	1,389	3.9%	18.9%
San Diego	286	509	298	-43.8%	-4.0%
USWC Totals	317,696	342,485	438,232	-7.2%	-27.5%
Boston	4,953	5,273	6,853	-6.1%	-27.7%
NYNJ	129,565	124,801	132,315	3.8%	-2.1%
Philadelphia	7,742	7,549	6,652	2.6%	16.4%
Baltimore	17,542	1,916	19,134		-8.3%
Virginia	93,406	98,687	88,065	-5.4%	6.1%
Charleston	53,798	48,965	71,399	9.9%	-24.7%
Savannah	119,873	120,664	126,895	-0.7%	-5.5%
Jaxport	46,459	45,280	42,180	2.6%	10.1%
Port Everglades	39,939	36,085	35,805	10.7%	11.5%
Port Miami	20,697	22,225	35,357	-6.9%	-41.5%
USEC Totals	511,479	504,256	538,668	1.4%	-5.0%
New Orleans	22,253	21,336	27,757	4.3%	-19.8%
Houston	132,900	131,690	116,693	0.9%	13.9%
USGC Totals	155,153	153,026	144,450	1.4%	7.4%
Vancouver	68,645	71,340	95,220	-3.8%	-27.9%
Prince Rupert	10,828	13,220	19,458	-18.1%	-44.4%
British Columbia Totals	79,473	84,560	114,678	-6.0%	-30.7%
Manzanillo	21,396	33,018	66,233	-35.2%	-67.7%
Lazaro Cardenas	4,986	5,708	24,104	-12.6%	-79.3%
Mexico Pacific Coast Ports	26,382	38,726	90,337	-31.0%	-70.8%
U.S. Ports Total	1,006,823	1,006,956	1,147,337	0.0%	12.2%

May 2025 Year-to-Date TEUs

Port	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	Change from 2024	Change from 2019
Los Angeles	4,063,472	3,903,734	3,773,862	4.1%	7.7%
Long Beach	4,042,228	3,449,181	3,008,470	17.2%	34.4%
NYNJ	3,729,611	3,501,676	3,041,814	6.5%	22.6%
Savannah	2,448,466	2,247,008	1,890,322	9.0%	29.5%
Houston	1,837,813	1,758,960	1,209,921	4.5%	51.9%
Vancouver	1,551,302	1,466,334	1,409,784	5.8%	10.0%
NWSA	1,361,247	1,234,912	1,572,029	10.2%	-13.4%
Virginia	1,396,549	1,496,566	1,215,124	-6.7%	14.9%
Manzanillo	1,590,643	1,606,682	1,242,957	-1.0%	28.0%
Charleston	1,103,290	1,022,460	1,007,011	7.9%	9.6%
Lazaro Cardenas	1,028,156	910,891	553,254	12.9%	85.9%
Oakland	974,417	942,715	1,051,254	3.3%	-7.3%
Montreal	638,929	616,505	716,682	3.6%	-10.8%
JaxPort	582,125	563,779	559,387	3.3%	4.1%
Port Everglades	503,504	456,843	443,339	10.2%	13.6%
Port Miami	477,390	461,991	473,834	3.3%	0.8%
Philadelphia	386,710	344,807	246,370	12.2%	57.0%
Prince Rupert	347,151	333,496	454,406	4.1%	-23.6%
Baltimore	482,108	270,004	453,248	78.6%	6.4%
New Orleans	218,926	221,024	263,431	-0.9%	-16.9%
Hueneme	115,004	110,609	55,810	4.0%	106.1%
Boston	107,210	106,968	120,460	0.2%	-11.0%
San Diego	58,781	61,836	59,633	-4.9%	-1.4%
Portland, Oregon	36,360	40,194	20	9.5%	∞
U.S. Ports Total	23,925,211	22,195,267	20,445,339	78.6%	6.4%

Complete May 2025 TEU Numbers

Exhibits 1-3 display the May TEU counts for the North American ports PMSA monitors. (Note that May figures for the Port of Baltimore were unavailable by our publication deadline.)  At the remaining U.S. ports, the year’s fifth month saw the number of inbound loaded TEUs decline by 6.4% from a year earlier to 2,018,951 TEUs as confusion over tariffs prompted importers to slow the build-up of inventory. Collectively, outbound loads from those same U.S. ports edged downward by 1.6% from the previous May to 989,281 TEUs.

May data also showed that U.S. West Coast (USWC) ports handled 11.3% fewer inbound loaded TEUs than they had a year earlier and 10.5% fewer than in May 2019. By comparison, U.S. East Coast (USEC) ports saw a slender 1.2% year-over-year gain in inbound loads, due entirely to the recovery of container traffic at the Port of Baltimore. At the two U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) ports we keep an eye on, the number of inbound loads edged up by 2.7% over May 2024.

Here are the May 2025 TEU tallies as reported by the individual ports:

Starting in Southern California, the Port of Los Angeles reported 355,950 inbound loaded TEUs in May, an 8.9% falloff from a year earlier and a 16.8% decline from the pre-pandemic May of 2019. Outbound loads (120,196 TEUs) in May were off by 4.6% year-over-year and down 28.2% from May 2019. Total container traffic (loaded as well as empty boxes) this year through May through America’s busiest container port amounted to 4,063,472 TEUs, a 7.7% gain over the first five months of 2019.

The Port of Long Beach handled 299,116 inbound loaded TEUs in May, a 13.4% year-over-year decline but a 2.9% gain over May 2019. The port also saw an 18.6% drop in outbound loads to 82,149 TEUs from 100,885 TEUs a year earlier as well as a 31.9% decline from the 120,577 outbound loads handled in May 2019. Total container traffic (loads and empties) through the San Pedro Bay port through the first five months of 2025 amounted to 4,042,228 TEUs, up 34.4% from the same period in 2019.

Collectively, the two San Pedro Bay maritime gateways handled 655,066 inbound loaded TEUs in May, a year-over-year decline of 11.0% as well as an 8.8% falloff from May 2019. Outbound loads from both ports in May (202,345 TEUs) were down 10.8% from May 2024 and 29.7% below the volume recorded in May 2019. Total YTD container moves (8,105,700 TEUs) through the two ports were up 10.2% from the year before and up 19.5% from January-May 2019.

The Port of Oakland received 79,323 laden TEUs in May, a 0.9% dip from a year earlier and down 7.7% from May 2019. Outbound loads (67,327 TEUs) were up 8.7% year-over-year but down 13.8% below the volume shipped in May 2019. Total container traffic through the Northern California gateway this year through May amounted to 974,417 TEUs, an increase of 3.4% from the first five months of 2024 but down 7.3% from the same period in 2019.

The Northwest Seaport Alliance Ports of Tacoma and Seattle saw container trade diminish in May. Import loads (81,642 TEUs) experienced a 10.2% year-over-year fall-off and a 13.4% decline from May 2019. Export loads (46,086 TEUs) were down 10.7% from a year earlier while trailing the export volume of May 2019 by 26.9%. Total container traffic through the two ports YTD (1,361,247 TEUs) was 13.4% shy of the 1,572,029 TEUs the ports handled in the first five months of 2019,

Just north of the border, the Port of Vancouver handled 178,635 inbound loaded TEUs in May, a 13.4% gain from a year earlier and a 36.8% increase from May 2019. Outbound loads (68,645 TEUs) were down 3.8% year-over-year and 27.9% below the outbound volume in May 2019. Total container movements YTD through Canada’s largest seaport (1,551,302 TEUs) were 10.0% higher than during the same period in May 2019.

The Port of Prince Rupert did not fare as well. Canada’s third busiest container port handled 45,608 inbound loaded TEUs in May, down 4.5% year-over-year and 20.8% off the mark set in May 2019. Outbound loads this May (10,828 TEUs) were down by 18.1% from a year earlier and 44.4% below the volume recorded in May 2019. Total container movements YTD (347,151 TEUs) were down 23.6% from the same five months in 2019.  

Back on the Atlantic Seaboard, the Port of New York/New Jersey (PNYNJ) saw the arrival of 382,217 laden TEUs in May, the most of any North American port in that month. PNYNJ also handled the highest volume of total container traffic in North America in May. Nonetheless, the number of inbound loads was down by 7.6% from a year earlier. Outbound loads in May (129,565 TEUs), although down 16.5% year-over-year were second only to the 132,900 laden outbound TEUs shipped from Port Houston in May. Total container traffic through the first five months of the year at PNYNJ amounted to 3,729,611 TEUs, a 22.6% gain over the same period in 2019.

Along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, the Port of Virginia reported 134,724 inbound loaded TEUs were discharged at Norfolk in May, a 12.1% fall-off from a year earlier but a 12.7% gain over May 2019. Outbound loads amounted to 93,406 TEUs, down 5.4% from May 2024 but up 6.1% from May 2019. Total container traffic through the port so far this year came to 1,396,549 TEUs, a gain of 14.9% over the same five months in 2019.  

The Port of Charleston handled 108,428 inbound loaded TEUs in May, an 18.9% jump from a year earlier and up 23.2% from May 2019. Outbound loads in May (53,796 TEUs), while up 9.9% year-over-year, were 24.7% shy of the number of laden outbound TEUs shipped from the port in May 2019. Total container traffic YTD through the South Carolina maritime gateway (1,103,290 TEUs) represented a 9.6% gain over the same period in 2019.

At the Port of Savannah, inbound loads in May (238,090 TEUs) edged up by 1.9% from the preceding May while posting a 28.5% improvement over May 2019. Outbound loads (119,873 TEUs) were off 0.7% from a year earlier and by 5.5% from May 2019. Total box trade through the Georgia port YTD amounted to 2,448,466 TEUs, up 29.5% from the same period in 2019.

On the Gulf Coast, 166,005 inbound loaded TEUs were discharged at Port Houston in May, a 0.9% gain from the previous May but an imposing 55.0% increase over May 2019. Outbound loads (132,900 TEUs) also edged up by 0.9% from a year earlier but were 13.9% above the volume of May 2019. Total container movements YTD through the Texas port (1,837,813 TEUs) represented a 51.9% expansion over the same months in 2019.   

Mexico’s two major Pacific Coast maritime gateways, the Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, combined to handle 193,494 import loads in May, a decline of 1.7% from a year earlier but a 16.2% gain over May 2019. Export loads (26,382 TEUs) have plunged 31.0% from the previous May and by 70.8% from May 2019. Total container traffic through the two ports thus far in 2025, which includes transloading and domestic trade, amounted to 2,618,799 TEUs, a 45.8% increase over the same period six years ago.

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

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	31.8%	34.8%	38.6%	40.0%
LA/LB	23.3%	25.5%	27.6%	28.9%
Oakland	3.1%	3.2%	4.0%	4.5%
NWSA	3.7%	4.4%	5.6%	5.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	36.4%	40.1%	45.5%	45.6%
LA/LB	27.8%	30.8%	34.8%	34.6%
Oakland	2.7%	3.0%	3.5%	3.6%
NWSA	4.8%	5.4%	6.7%	6.9%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	29.1%	32.6%	36.0%	38.6%
LA/LB	17.3%	20.3%	22.0%	22.2%
Oakland	5.6%	5.4%	6.1%	6.9%
NWSA	5.4%	6.0%	7.7%	8.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

Historic USWC Container Traffic by Weights and Values

Exhibit 6 and Exhibit 7 display the latest (May 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 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 appreciable year-over-year declines in the USWC share of all containerized import tonnage flowing into mainland U.S. ports. The one positive showing is that the Port of Oakland slightly boosted its share of U.S. containerized exports from May 2024.

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

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Tonnage

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	24.6%	27.1%	31.4%	32.1%
LA/LB	15.2%	17.8%	20.7%	21.3%
Oakland	5.8%	5.6%	6.0%	5.9%
NWSA	3.1%	3.4%	4.2%	4.6%

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	49.9%	53.1%	57.4%	61.8%
LA/LB	39.6%	41.9%	44.4%	47.4%
Oakland	3.5%	3.6%	4.6%	5.0%
NWSA	5.8%	6.8%	7.9%	8.6%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Ports Containerized Import Value

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Tonnage

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	58.9%	61.8%	65.9%	65.2%
LA/LB	46.5%	48.7%	51.7%	50.8%
Oakland	3.2%	3.7%	4.0%	4.0%
NWSA	7.7%	8.3%	9.6%	9.9%

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	54.3%	56.0%	58.1%	63.3%
LA/LB	33.2%	35.8%	36.3%	39.1%
Oakland	9.3%	8.2%	9.2%	10.0%
NWSA	10.3%	10.7%	12.5%	13.9%

Shares of U.S. Mainland Containerized Export Value

	May 2025	May 2024	May 2019	May 2015
USWC	58.8%	57.4%	64.4%	64.0%
LA/LB	37.9%	38.3%	43.5%	44.5%
Oakland	12.0%	10.8%	11.1%	9.6%
NWSA	7.9%	7.5%	8.7%	9.5%

Exhibit 7 testifies to the declining USWC shares of all U.S. containerized trade involving trading partners in East Asia. The numbers indicate that the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach captured a significantly smaller share of the nation’s containerized import tonnage from East Asia than they had commanded a year earlier as well as a similarly lower share of the value of those imports. Likewise, shares of import tonnage and value slipped from the same month in 2024 at both the Port of Oakland and the NWSA Ports of Tacoma and Seattle.