Last month, cargo traffic in Chinese ports recorded a marked increase having amounted to the record share of 1.61 billion tonnes, up +5.1% compared to November 2024, of which 1.00 billion tonnes were handled by seaports (+5.8%), a volume slightly lower only than the all-time record of 1.01 billion tonnes in May 2025 and volume of more than 1.0 billion tons as of August 2025, and 610.8 million tonnes handled by inland ports (+4.1%), volume which constitutes the new absolute record.

Among the main ports by traffic volume, as of November 2025 the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan handled 119.8 million tons (+10.5%) followed by the ports of Tangshan with 79.0 million of tons (+5.2%), Shanghai with 68.0 million tons (+7.2%), Qingdao with 59.8 million tons (+8.1%), Guangzhou with 57.5 million tons (+0.2%), Rizhao with 52.5 million tons tons (+1.2%), Tianjin with 50.9 million tons (+3.3%) and Yantai with 48.0 million tons (+10.5%).

Even more pronounced in November 2025 was the handling only of goods to and from abroad that have been amounted to 487.4 million tonnes (+8.2%), of which 436.4 million tonnes million tonnes passed through seaports (+8.2%) and 50.9 million tons through inland ports (+8.2%). The increased volume of international goods, amounting to 56.8 million tons (+11.3%), was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan followed by Qingdao ports with 44.0 million tons (+12.3%), Shanghai with 38.6 million tons (+12.7%), Tangshan with 35.1 million tons (+15.4%), Tianjin with 31.1 million tonnes (+7.9%), Rizhao with 28.1 million tonnes tons (-3.3%) and Shenzhen with 23.2 million tons (+15,5%).

Last month, the total container traffic handled from Chinese ports amounted to 30.5 million TEUs (+8.7%), of which 26.8 million TEUs handled by ports maritime (+8.9%) and 3.7 million TEUs from inland ports (+7.5%). At handling the largest quantity of containers was the port of Shanghai which totaled 4.5 million TEUs (+5.9%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 3.7 million TEUs (+12.4%), Shenzhen with 3.1 million TEUs (+11.6%), Qingdao with 2.7 million TEUs million TEUs (+5.0%), Guangzhou with 2.5 million TEUs (+15.8%), Tianjin with 1.9 million TEUs (+1.1%) and Xiamen with 1.1 million TEUs TEU (+2.8%).

In the first 11 months of 2025, Chinese ports handled more than 16.7 billion tons of goods, with an increase of +4.4% over the corresponding period of 2014 last year, including 10.6 billion tonnes of cargo handled by seaports (+3.7%) and 6.1 billion tonnes from inland ports (+5.7%). The only foreign traffic is amounted to almost 5.2 billion tonnes (+4.1%) globally, of which 4.6 billion tonnes in seaports (+4.1%) and 533.4 billion tonnes million tons in inland ports (+4.7%).

In the period January-November of this year, the traffic of the amounted to 324.7 million TEUs (+6.6%), of which 285.9 million TEUs handled by seaports (+6.9%) and 38.8 million TEUs million TEUs from Inland Ports (+4.9%). At the top of the ranking of the main national container ports relating to this period there is the port of Shanghai with 50.6 million TEUs (+6.7%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 40.0 million TEUs (+10.7%), Shenzhen with 32.4 million TEUs (+6.6%), Qingdao with 30.4 million TEUs million TEUs (+7.0%), Guangzhou with 25.3 million TEUs (+5.7%), Tianjin with 22.7 million TEUs (+2.9%) and Xiamen with 11.2 million TEUs TEU (+1.9%).