Foreign volumes increased by +8.9%. Container traffic amounted to 26.4 million TEUs (+8.0%)
Last October, Chinese ports handled 1.57 billion tons of goods, with an increase of +2.2% over October 2024, of which 987.1 million tonnes passed through the maritime ports (+3.8%) and 581.2 million tons through inland ports (-0.4%). The only traffic to and from foreign sales amounted to a total of 487.4 million tonnes (+7.7%), of which 437.1 million tonnes handled from seaports (+8.9%) and 50.3 million tonnes from ports (-1.5%). Domestic traffic alone was equal to 1.08 billion tonnes (-0.1%), including 550.0 million tonnes in seaports (0%) and 531.0 million tonnes in the Inland Ports (-0.3%).
Among the main Chinese ports by traffic volume overall, in October 2025 Ningbo-Zhoushan port has handled 116.9 million tons of goods (+5.6%), the port of Tangshan 74.3 million tons (-1.4%) and followed by the ports Shanghai with 67.7 million tons (+3.9%), Qingdao with 61.8 million tons (+4.9%), Guangzhou with 57.3 million tons (+0.9%), Rizhao with 55.1 million tons (+2.3%) and Tianjin with 49.7 million tons (+3.1%).
With regard to the ports that handled the largest volume of foreign traffic, last October the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan handled 55.3 million tons (+10.0%), the port of Qingdao 44.2 million tons (+8.6%) and followed by the ports of Shanghai with 39.1 million tons (+11.7%), Tangshan with 33.4 million tons (+3.0%), Rizhao with 32.7 million tonnes (-1.3%), Tianjin with 31.4 million tonnes (+4.4%) and Shenzhen with 23.7 million tons (+13.2%).
As for container traffic alone, last October the ports Chinese companies handled a total of almost 30.0 million TEU (+7.3%), of which 26.4 million TEUs handled by ports maritime (+8.0%) and 3.6 million TEUs from inland ports (+2.9%). Among the main ports by volume of containerized traffic, Shanghai handled over 4.5 million TEUs (+9.2%), Ningbo-Zhoushan 3.8 million TEUs (+14.8%), Shenzhen 3.1 million teu (+12.1%), Qingdao 2.8 million teu (+6.5%), Guangzhou 2.3 million TEUs (+2.2%), Tianjin 1.9 million TEUs (+1.1%) and Xiamen 1.0 million TEUs (+5.3%).
In the first ten months of 2025, global freight traffic stood at 15.13 billion tonnes, an increase by +4.3% on the same period of last year, of which 9.64 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+3.5%) and 5.45 billion tons from inland ports (+5.9%). The only foreign traffic amounted to a total of 4.67 billion tonnes (+3.7%), including 4.19 billion tonnes handled by seaports (+3.6%) and 482.5 million tons from inland ports (+4.3%).
In the period January-October of this year, the traffic of the amounted to 294.2 million TEUs (+6.4%), of which 259.1 million TEUs in seaports (+6.7%) and 35.1 million TEUs in the Inland Ports (+4.6%). Among the main container ports China, Shanghai handled 46.1 million TEUs (+6.8%), Ningbo-Zhoushan 36.3 million TEUs (+10.5%), Shenzhen 29.3 million TEU (+6.1%), Qingdao TEU 27.6 million (+7.2%), Guangzhou TEU 22.8 million TEUs (+4.7%), Tianjn 20.8 million TEUs (+3.0%) and Xiamen 10.1 million TEUs (+1.8%).
